Freshwater jellyfish have been in inland lakes and rivers throughout the Great Lakes region since 1933. But a century after their discovery, we still don’t know much about the elusive creatures. A team of student scientists is trying to change that.
Excerpted from How to Become an American: A History of Immigration, Assimilation, and Loneliness, by Daniel Wolff, published December 2022 by University of South Carolina Press.
I think that's a huge part of chowing down on Copi. You're an eco-warrior, someone making a difference, eating one invasive fish at a time.
No song better captures the terrifying power of the Great Lakes than Lightfoot’s tragic, captivating rendering. It is a sonic and literary achievement, translating the sudden confusion, fear, and despair as the Edmund Fitzgerald is unable to weather a November storm.
Wind turbines are being built in ocean waters off the east and west coasts. But why don’t we see any in the Great Lakes?
Indigenous diasporas and making 'home' in the Rust Belt.
Chicago is the most dangerous city in the country for birds. Meet the people who want to change that.
On the eroding shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, a buried eighteenth-century lumber port, and the stakes of inaction.
Sixty years ago, my parents took us on a driving tour of Lake Michigan, the quintessential Midwest road trip.
Olcott, New York—"The French Riviera of Lake Ontario"—has sunk and rebounded in a way so minor, yet major enough to feel like a triumph.
A land acknowledgement, plus ten stories from the archives on Indigenous life in the region.
The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?