If we include the United States, the total amount of plastic waste in the Great Lakes Basin rises to 21 million tons per year (or 821 billion 500 ml bottles). For Canada and the U.S., the fraction ...

In 2002, the Great Lakes basin had just 11.9% ice coverage, NOAA said. In 2012, Lake Superior had 8.5% coverage. In 2002, ...

Since data collection began in 1973, the average extent of ice coverage across the entire Great Lakes basin on Jan. 11 is about 17 per cent. That number would normally increase to a peak between ...

hold paramount significance in maintaining the ecological integrity and socioeconomic prosperity of the Great Lakes Basin. The dynamic water levels of the Great Lakes play a pivotal role in numerous ...

Sustain Our Great Lakes partners this week announced $6.6 million in grant funding for 25 ecological restoration projects in the Great Lakes basin. Approximately $8.2 million in additional project ...

Desalination plants have increased in the Southwest United States and across the world ... There is also the possibility of mass migration to the Great Lakes. People may come to the basin, a place ...

The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative recently welcomed Michigan City Mayor Angie Nelson Deuitch and the city, ...

Journal Sentinel reporter Caitlin Looby, who covers Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes basin ... lived in every time zone in the continental United States. Since 2022, Looby has been with the ...

Millions of these giant, ancient fish once lived in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basin ... Their numbers have declined more than 99% over the past century because of overfishing, dams and ...