If President Donald Trump's threat to tariff Canadian imports by 25% goes forward, 200 years of peaceful and profitable Great Lakes maritime trade will be at risk.

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his second inauguration, the president broke from a North Carolina hurricane-recovery briefing and made a surprise announcement that, “we’re going to order about 40 big icebreakers.”

Environmental restoration and research projects swept up in widespread confusion caused by White House effort to freeze federal grant spending.

With a weak La Niña returning in the equatorial Pacific, our weather across the Great Lakes could turn more active for the remainder of winter.

Michigan City joined the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative that's secured more than $2.8 billion in funding to preserve and advance the Great Lakes.

Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the current ice concentration look like and

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods for the Great Lakes.

Geo Rutherford describes herself as a “morbid pessimist.” She gets excited when she finds evidence of things that have gone wrong and spends her time finding evidence of how the Great Lakes are being decimated. To Rutherford, the abandoned boat between McKinley and Bradford beaches is just another funny episode in this epoch.

The Farmers' Almanac predicts a lingering winter and a cool, stormy spring for much of the U.S. More winter weather for Michigan and Illinois.

Bonta, who like Trump is a Republican, told The Times that he does not oppose tariffs in general, but wants to see the Trump administration deploy them judiciously.

North America had the highest diversity and density of freshwater mussels on Earth. Discover how the button industry contributed to their decline, leaving these vital species critically endangered today.

More than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution end up in the Great Lakes every year, according to the Rochester Institute of Technology. While plastic pollution is certainly a concern, another growi