When you think of North America’s great lakes, the first ones that come to mind are often the iconic five: Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. These vast bodies of ...

Beneath the hype, the region faces a host of both potential and very real climate-related problems. Many of these relate to ...

The Great Lakes have been known to generate waves of more than 25 feet. They can sink lake freighters over 500 feet long when this happens. Lake Erie is booby-trapped with reefs, numerous sand ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the Great Lakes account for 21% of the world’s freshwater and 84% of North America's surface fresh water. That’s in line with what Burke said. We ...

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...

AT one time glaciers—perhaps in the co-operative society of an ice-sheet—were gravely suspected of having excavated even the great lakes of North America. This, however, is hardly probable.

The Great Lakes formed where they did 20,000 years ago thanks to a hotspot that sat under the supercontinent Pangaea 300 million years ago, before North America even existed.

The Great Lakes of North America span 750 miles from east to west and form the largest freshwater system on Earth. Here are 10 facts about the fab five. 1. Lake Superior is the biggest and deepest ...

As North America shifted away, the site of the modern-day Great Lakes passed over the Cape Verde hot spot, Li found. When ocean hot spots interact with the planet’s surface, it usually results ...

A PAPER, entitled “The Currents of the Great Lakes,” prepared by Prof. Mark W. Harrington, from data collected by means of bottle-papers during the navigation seasons of 1892 and 1893, has ...