The Minnesota Star Tribune spoke to the co-owner of Hibbing Fabricators, which makes aluminum, steel and copper products.

The small plastic particles are "ubiquitous" in Great Lakes water, sediment, plants, fish and beaches, an international panel ...

The lakes of the US are often thought of as great holiday destinations. All of them provide a combination of hiking, boating, ...

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.

Scientists are urging the US and Canadian governments to take swift action after discovering high levels of microplastic ...

Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, warned Americans in the certain regions may be most affected by ...

When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication occurs when too many nutrients enter a body of water, increasing the amount of ...

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The Great Lakes are an amazing natural resource that hold nearly 20% of the entire surface fresh water supply on the globe and a whopping 95% of the available fresh water supply for the US.

It happened so quickly that a Canadian freighter ship around 600 feet long got stuck on its route from Buffalo back to Canada. Overall, about 23 percent of the Great Lakes are frozen up to this date.