The study found that the most substantial increase occurred along the southern third of the Lake Michigan coast, where some ...

Emily Cornelius Ruhs, a postdoctoral research scientist with the Field Museum, said blood samples with higher levels of PFAS ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes surged because treatments were limited.

Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary is home to at least 10 underwater sinkholes. Formed as groundwater eroded ...

If you think freighter food is just cafeteria slop, think again. Sissy Payment is the cook aboard one of the lake’s thousand ...

Tom Talbot is a self-taught archeologist who discovered his passion when he was 11-years old. “Had a friend whose father worked in soil conservation and he was out in the […] ...

The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS; Michigan Public, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; and The Narwhal who work together to bring ...

When you think of archeology, you probably think of ancient Egypt or Rome. But in Michigan’s St. Joseph County, archeologists are searching for signs of Clovis People, some of the first inhabitants of ...

More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted just 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) in the sandy dunes of the Great Lakes. At the time, no one knew if the new ...

As a child, Thomas Nelson became fascinated by the Edmund Fitzgerald after seeing one of its lifeboats in a museum. As an adult and elected official, he realized that the Edmund Fitzgerald was more ...

At Farrand Hall, flavors come from the land just outside the door. In addition to a vegetable garden, the kitchen forages for herbs and ingredients on the property’s twelve acres. The result is a ...