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Explore the haunting world of Great Lakes' shipwrecks and discover the story behind Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the ...
NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.
The 1913 storm raged for over four days and sank multiple ships and claimed the lives of over 250 sailors, earning the nickname “The White Hurricane,” as reported by the Detroit Free Press. November 9 ...
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared September as Preparedness Month in Michigan, according to her office. The move follows a ...
The James Carruthers is just one of the many shipwrecks Trotter and his team at Undersea Research Associates have found over ...
A Canadian freighter, the SS James Carruthers, disappeared into Lake Huron’s icy, deep blue waters, until David Trotter and his crew found it.
FRANKLINVILLE, N.Y. (WKBW) — Earlier this week, we told you that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation launched an investigation into a fish kill along Ischua Creek, a popular ...
The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that ... sank at least a dozen Great Lakes ships and took the lives of some 250 people. The damage still ranks among the worst ...
With the threats of a warming climate, growing demand and lack of planning foresight, a new report is sounding the alarm on the finite resources found in the Great Lakes. A report from the Alliance ...
Fishermen in Southwest Louisiana Say LNG Terminals Are to Blame for Shrimp Harvest Decline Chemical Manufacturing Made New Jersey the ‘PFAS Toilet for the Country’ Coal Is Rising Along with Solar in ...
The Great Lakes' water supply is threatened by increased demand from industries like data centers and mining, coupled with climate change impacts. Data centers, attracted by tax incentives, consume ...
LANSING, Mich. — Lawmakers in the Michigan House and Senate introduced several bills last week in an effort to crack down on microplastics in the Great Lakes. Specifically, the proposed legislation ...