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We have become strangely suspicious of quiet lives. We celebrate the person who has built something enormous, who rises quickly, speaks boldly, accumulates accomplishments and leaves behind evidence they were here. We measure lives by scale. We ask what someone achieved, what they earned, and what they became. And yet
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“Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia,” said Mihaylo Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister. “We must find a legal, safe and realistic mechanism which will allow Ukraine to renew its full democratic process even in the conditions of a long war.” Seven years after the last election, some Ukrainians
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More than 100 feet below Lake Michigan’s surface, the Jennibel, a schooner that sank in an 1881 storm, is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Read the full […]
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Two lake sturgeon were rescued last weekend in Baraga County, Michigan, by state officials after getting stranded in an isolated spot away from the Ontonagon River that was dried by […]
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A remarkable chapter in Great Lakes maritime history will be commemorated Tuesday as the Keweenaw Historical Society marks the 100th anniversary of the wreck of the City of Bangor and […]
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The bipartisan Congressional Great Lakes Task Force, state agencies in Illinois and Michigan, and environmental organizations have all sent requests to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to resume construction […]
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A Huron County, Ontario, program that has helped fund thousands of projects aimed at keeping contaminants out of local waterways and Lake Huron will come to an end this year […]
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update Lake Ontario’s name to “Lake America” in the U.S. geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to […]
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By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
For decades, scientists believed that the earliest four-limbed vertebrates developed much like modern amphibians: They hatched from eggs, passed through a larval tadpole stage and then underwent metamorphosis into adults. However, a new study published in Science challenges that long-held view.
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By Akia Thrower
Residents and city officials in Gary, Indiana, have called for improved utility infrastructure and accountability after an extended power outage.
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“If you can, sit in the front seat next to the driver, or even better yet, be the driver. During motion sickness your brain is getting impulses from three different … Continued
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