Epic summer adventure? Try splashing in all five Great Lakes in one day. Here are three routes you can try, including a ...

The Great Lakes are a dominant part of the physical and cultural heritage of North America. Shared with Canada and spanning more than 750 miles (1,200 kilometers) from west to east, these inland ...

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

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 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 DNA of this city changed. Cities have DNA, just like people. When that DNA changes, you either evolve with it or get ...

The lakes hold about 22% of the world’s fresh surface water. As North America gets hotter and dryer, protecting our source of drinking water is paramount.

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 ...

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

The idea that the lakes’ bounty will quench the thirst of the western United States is an obstacle delaying the West’s inevitable reckoning with the unsustainable status quo.

The heavy lake effect snow prompted the Buffalo Bills to ask fans for help clearing snow out of Highmark Stadium ahead of the team's game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night.