To date, the Great Lakes as a whole are just shy of 15% ice coverage, up from the 10% average for this time of year.

Last year, maritime archaeologists revisited the "Northerner" in Lake Michigan and captured hundreds of still images, which ...

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

The lakes' frozen waters are currently impacting commercial traffic between ports across the Great Lakes in places like ...

Ice on Lake Erie is a familiar sight most winters, but as we've been telling you, an exceptionally cold December brought the ...

A potent winter storm brought blizzard conditions, treacherous travel and power outages in parts of the Upper Midwest on Monday as other areas of the country experienced plunging temperatures, strong ...

Americans face New Year’s Eve travel chaos and ‘whiteout’ conditions as winter storms bring more snow and rain - Two more storms were forecast later this week, with rain on New Year’s Day potentially ...

Winter storms on the Great Lakes can temporarily lower water levels, revealing shipwrecks and other submerged features. Strong, sustained winds during colder months push water from one end of a lake ...

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According to NOAA ice analysis updated this week, average ice cover across all five Great Lakes remains below 10%. This is tracking near average for mid-December. That’s not unusual. Historically, ...

The Cellus ran aground when entering the Port of Sunderland [Martin Emmerson/BBC] A cargo ship ran aground at the entrance to a harbour. The Cellus, which had sailed from Brünsbuttel in Germany, came ...

If the Netflix sleeper hit "The Great Flood" left you craving more large-scale destruction and survival stories, you’re not alone. Disaster movies have a way of pulling you in, because there's one ...