To prevent further spread of potentially catastrophic invasive species in the Great Lakes, the Canadian government is moving forward with tighter restrictions on all freighters. But standards ...

In November 1913, the SS Henry B. Smith sailed into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on the Great Lakes. While dozens of ships were damaged or sunk during the disaster, this freighter ...

In 1940, the freighter SS Arlington was towing a barge across Lake Superior when it encountered a powerful storm. As waves and wind intensified, the ship began taking on water and radioed its final ...

Drawn by its reputation for maritime education, many new cadets travel more than 1,200 miles from Louisiana, a key location ...

More than half of the Great Lakes now are covered in ice, and the Arctic front arriving Tuesday, Feb. 3, will likely boost ice growth this week. On Sunday, Feb. 1, researchers reported total ice cover ...

Frigid January weather caused Lake Erie's ice coverage to jump from under 2% to over 92% in just ten days. This year marks the most ice Lake Erie has had at the start of February in 23 years. Despite ...

Winter has officially tightened its grip on the Great Lakes. The latest numbers released on Feb. 3 confirm what many Michiganders have felt. Ice coverage across the Great Lakes has surged, driven by a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record cold spell over the last two weeks is developing a lot of ice on the Great Lakes. The view from a satellite high above ...

Satellite time-lapse imagery has captured "extensive" ice growth across the Great Lakes, according to the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) and the National Oceanic and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — This should come as no surprise, given our arctic air in the region over the last couple of weeks, but ice coverage on the Great Lakes has dramatically increased. As of Monday, ...

The record cold spell over the last two weeks is developing a lot of ice on the Great Lakes. The view from a satellite high above Earth gives us a great perspective on the expanding ice cover. The ...