Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

Disruption of Great Lakes transit through any—or all—of these locks poses a real hazard. If Canada decided to simply take a half-measure, and close the Welland Canal to U.S. ships or refuse to ...

Microplastics, measuring under 5 millimeters in length—or smaller than a pencil eraser—are considered a pervasive problem in the Great Lakes. They enter lakes and rivers from a variety of ...

The United States and Canada should take stronger action against microplastic pollution in the Great Lakes, an international science advisory board recommended to the governments. The small ...

The goal of the Great Lakes Freshwater Ecosystem Initiative (FEI) is to target the most significant environmental challenges affecting Great Lakes water quality and ecosystem health by delivering on ...

On Thursday, all eyes will be on Boston as Team USA and Canada​ square off at TD Garden during a rematch of a game that ...

The boat, with capacity for nearly 200 guests and just over 80 crew members, will set sail from Chicago on a tour of cities throughout the Great Lakes in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada.

He ended up sailing across all five Great Lakes, such as to take steel to the ... Minnesota or Thunder Bay, Ontario in Canada. Unlike when he was on a tugboat on the Mississippi River, when ...

What is the record ice coverage for the Great Lakes? The overall highest percentage of ice coverage for all the Great Lakes took place in 1979 when they were 94.7% covered, NOAA said.

GREAT LAKES—Every year, more than 22 million pounds of plastic pollution enter the Great Lakes, according to a study by the Rochester Institute of Technology. While visible plastic waste is an ...