North America's famous Great Lakes,Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario, are known worldwide for their massive size ...

Epic summer adventure? Try splashing in all five Great Lakes in one day. Here are three routes you can try, including a no-passport way.

Which Great Lake do you always forget? How to remember them: Think of the acronym H.O.M.E.S.: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.

If Your Time is short The Great Lakes account for 21% of the world’s freshwater and 84% of North America's surface freshwater, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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

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.

Note This story has been amended to better reflect the results of the study. The Great Lakes are some of North America’s most beautiful and prized bodies of water, but plastic pollution is ...

In this five-part series, The News looks at how climate change is affecting the five Great Lakes, and the research that's underway to protect them.

As North America shifted away, the site of the modern-day Great Lakes passed over the Cape Verde hot spot, Li found.

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 ...