The Great Lakes have been victimized by invasive populations of mussels for years. The zebra and quagga mussels are a danger to native lake life, hitching a ride on boats and other watercraft.

Researchers discovered a 19th century “ghost ship” in Lake Michigan. The missing clue to the wreck’s location was hiding in ...

Shipwreck hunters found the SS James Carruthers, a wheat-carrying cargo ship that sank in the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. It's belly up in the bed of Lake Huron.

On the brink of collapse in Lakes Michigan and Huron, whitefish need a miracle. Now, some want to relocate fish en masse to ...

The 144-foot F.J. King, lost in Lake Michigan during a storm in 1886, has been discovered by the Wisconsin Underwater ...

The sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is one of the most famous shipwrecks in Great Lakes history, but it's just one of hundreds of vessels lost to these waters. For researchers, these wrecks are a ...

Environmental groups are continuing in their opposition to the Great Lakes Tunnel Project, which is slowly making its way out ...

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.

After decades of scouring the bottom of Lake Michigan, searchers have finally found the wreckage of a cargo schooner that sank during a ferocious storm almost 140 years ago off the Wisconsin coastline ...