The Beechcraft plane carrying pilot Robert Carew, co-pilot Gordon Jones and graduate student Velayudh Krishna Menon left Madison, Wisconsin, for Lake Superior on Oct. 23, 1968. They were collecting ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

She used the money she made to publish books—seven to date, from the history of the U.P. to the geology of Lake Superior’s stones. But running the agate shop hasn’t always been easy ...

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 ...