Warming winters are impacting lakes globally. However, most monitoring in the Great Lakes occurs during warmer, calmer weather. A new report highlights how policymakers can improve winter monitoring.

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (WSBT) — While farmers are busy this time of year harvesting crops, vineyards are doing the same. One program at Lake Michigan College (LMC) takes WSBT 22 through the harvesting ...

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Researchers in Wisconsin recently discovered a long-lost “ghost ship,” hidden in Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years. The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery on Sept. 15. In a ...

Researchers in Wisconsin recently discovered a long-lost "ghost ship," hidden in Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years. The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery on Sept. 15. In a ...

There's been a fivefold expansion of seawalls, riprap and other coastal armoring, which protects properties from erosion but makes things worse in the long run. This story was originally published by ...

The water temperatures on the Great Lakes can influence how storm systems move across the eastern U.S. In the next upcoming storm system, it is being influenced by the warmest part of the Great Lakes.

BAILEYS HARBOR — Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan once again made national news this month with the announcement of the discovery of the F.J. King, an three-masted wooden schooner found just off Door ...

PORTER COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A body recovered in Lake Michigan in May has been identified. Police say the remains belong to 20-year-old Adan Sanches of Chicago. His body was recovered two miles ...

Long rumored to be on the floor of the lake but never seen, the schooner had eluded divers and taunted storytellers for generations. It was miles off the Door Peninsula in Wisconsin. By Mark Walker ...

A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has been found, according to researchers with the Wisconsin Underwater ...

Searchers have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank during a Lake Michigan storm almost 140 years ago. The F.J. King was a 144-foot three-masted schooner built in 1867. The ship carried ...