CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Metroparks and other public agencies want to transform part of the city’s East Side lakefront from a hard, mean-looking edge of sheet piling and boulders into tranquil coves and wetlands sheltered by a new offshore “isle.’'

For centuries, the bay of Green Bay has been vital to how northeast Wisconsin lives, works and plays. It's had its share of challenges, but it also has cultivated a group of strong supporters willing to put in work to preserve it.

DETROIT — Lake Michigan appears to have hit its seasonal low for 2021 and lake levels are expected to begin their seasonal rise, according to the latest report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which tracks and forecasts Great Lakes water levels.

Study: Extreme wind events stir up lake quality issues

Photographer's images aid research of rare Great Lakes wave

A recent dredging project, a temporary fix, deposited old metal shards on beach.

The floodwaters have receded from Jefferson Chalmers for now, but evidence of the neighborhood’s recent crisis is hard to miss:

CHICAGO, IL. -- What’s good for piping plovers, black terns and other Great Lakes birds is good for Great Lakes humans, too.

CHICAGO — Climate change is reaching all the way down to the depths of one of Earth’s largest lakes.

New Study Uses Fingerprint Method To Pinpoint Source Of Mercury Pollution

Targeted work includes historic masonry wall, eastern shore bluff areas

Michigan's Indigenous communities hold long-standing legal right to protect lands and waters.

Federal aid, if it can be approved, could end up paving the way for desperately needed repair to the crumbling Lake St. Clair seawall in Grosse Pointe Farms and Grosse Pointe Shores.

As climate change complicates Lake Erie's algae problem, scientists say farmer must do far more to reduce phosphorus runoff. But will enough farmers change their ways without a government mandate?

Historic water levels across the Great Lakes region present state regulators with significant challenges.

Intrigued by warming winters, researchers from the University of Michigan set out in 1989 to formally measure changes in the geographical distribution of plants and animals in the dense pine and hardwood forests of northern Michigan.