Now back in Lake Michigan for the summer season is the Cook Nuclear Power Plant weather buoy. Cook Plant spokesperson Bill ...

As the weather cools, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is beginning to remove swim buoys and flags from Great Lakes beaches, closing designated swim areas for the season. Once buoys are ...

Winter is a quiet time for Great Lakes research, at least out on the water. Research vessels remain secured to their docks; most monitoring equipment is ashore. But last winter, a basketball-sized ...

The weather change to a cooler northerly wind created a rapid water rise on southern Lake Michigan. This rapid water rise is called a seiche. Water level sensors at Calumet Harbor in the very southern ...

MICHIGAN, USA — State park beaches are undergoing their annual transition as the Michigan Department of Natural Resources removes swim buoys and Great Lakes flag warning systems with the arrival of ...

Sort fish, harvest wild rice, and what a drifting buoy revealed about winter on the lakes. A project on a Michigan river uses an obstacle course to keep undesirable fish away. Take a canoe out onto ...