As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she's leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes' bottom. The effort, the marine scientist says, will pinpoint hundreds of ...

The recent spell of prolonged frigid temperatures across the Great Lakes helped push the region’s ice coverage to the highest level in years. For some areas, current ice coverage is the greatest ...

Altogether, the Great Lakes are seeing healthier ice coverage this year. Here's what to know about their current conditions.

DON’T MISS: See the astounding satellite images of Florida’s historic snow NOAA reported that about 23.2 percent of the Great Lakes were covered by ice as of Thursday, Jan. 23. This is just ...