The Great Lakes Smart Ships Coalition is conducting follow-up exploration in Lake Superior this week, aiming to locate the ...

Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now ...

A team from Great Lakes Smart Ships Coalition are back in Lake Superior investigating "hot spots" from September 2024 plane ...

Yooperlites are a variety of sodalite-rich syenite found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Lake Superior lies north of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and is the largest of the region's five Great Lakes. Here's what to ...

A canoeist paddles by the Slate Islands on Lake Superior. The lake is home to shipwrecks ... lakes that are haunted by toxic chemicals, geologic oddities, or well-preserved corpses.

During a public presentation in front of the Lake Superior Technical Committee (a branch of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission) this spring, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) revealed they had ...

It's a fish story with a big, unexpected plot twist. A native Great Lakes whitefish thought extinct for nearly 40 years has been rediscovered by scientists – in the wrong Great Lake. The ...

The fish is the lake trout. The lake is Lake Superior. The Lake Superior Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission on Nov. 20 declared lake trout met the recovery milestone in most of Lake ...