Scientists in an Ann Arbor research office were among hundreds fired nationally as the Trump administration slashes staff within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Zanatta says that even if workforce cuts are temporary or end up being reversed, the decisions risk damaging the bedrock of Great Lakes research. “We are in danger of losing a season’s worth of work to, kind of, forward our better understanding and restoration of the Great Lakes — and that is troubling,” he said.

A marine researcher from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia has taken a deep dive into North America's largest freshwater commercial fishing fleet, in Ontario's Great Lakes, with the new documentary Last Boat on the Lake.

A total of 314.4 inches has fallen in Montague County, New York. It’s the highest seasonal snowfall total in the National Weather Service database for the eastern United States.

The Great Lakes reached their highest percentage of ice coverage in three years on Feb. 21, federal officials said, but have seen seen the ice shrink dramatically. The Great Lakes were at 52.23% ice coverage on Feb. 22. The last time the Great Lakes ice coverage reached 50% was February 2022 when it hit 56%, the NOAA said.

Northern Ohio is set to experience a significant windstorm midweek, following a brief calm period, according to NWS Cleveland.

Just a week ago, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission faced a more dire staffing situation, as the USFWS informed directors they’d also be unable to hire seasonal workers to spread lampricide come April. Within a few days, that hiring freeze was reversed, said McClinchey.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been targeted in the most recent round of federal firings.Of the hundreds of NOAA staff who were fired on Thursday, eight were from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab in Ann Arbor.

As "The Fish Thief" details, the invasive creature sometimes referred to as a "vampire fish" once wreaked havoc on lake trout and other native species in Midwestern waters.

Xuanyu Harry Pang has admitted in federal court that he’d helped plot an attack on the Naval Station Great Lakes as payback for the 2020 death of Qassem Soleimani, a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps killed in a U.

A former sailor stationed at Naval Station Great Lakes has pleaded guilty to federal charges for plotting an attack on the north suburban Chicago military base, prosecutors announced Thursday.