A large-scale study led by the University of Jyväskylä revealed that human activity is consistently changing the ecosystems ...

K’gari’s iconic lakes have existed for tens of thousands of years—but they haven’t always been full. New research shows that ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered for the first time that large blackwater lakes in the extensive peatlands of the central Congo Basin are releasing ancient carbon. To date, climate ...

Lake Forest Open Lands Association (LFOLA) will restore a rare ravine-bluff ecosystem along Lake Michigan after securing a $5.75 million federal grant, aiming to stabilize eroding bluffs, protect ...

As below-freezing temperatures continue across Michigan, Lake Superior now has its highest ice concentration this season. Lake Superior's surface was 50% frozen over as of Feb. 9, about a 10 ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and Interlochen Public Radio in northern Michigan. Michigan researchers have gone back in time to get a picture of how ice cover on ...

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 ...

Days after elevated levels of E. coli closed bodies of water at the Lake of the Woods gated community in Orange County, yet another has closed — this time due to harmful algal bloom.

Lake Erie has developed a crack so large it's visible from space, after almost the entire lake froze solid. The great lake, situated between the border of the United States and Canada, froze almost ...

STATE KCCI EIGHT NEWS STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. WE DID HAVE ONE CONFIRMED FATALITY, AND WE’LL RELEASE THAT NAME TODAY. THE CONFIRMED FATALITY IS A CARTER JOHNSON, AGE 19, FROM RAPID CITY, SOUTH ...

Iowa authorities are calling Wednesday's deadly rollover crash involving a bus carrying the Iowa Lakes Community College baseball team a "mass casualty incident." The crash happened around 11 a.m. on ...

Lakes are freezing later, thawing earlier and experiencing dramatic temperature swings in between. And all that throws off ...