A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated effort to do so.

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could ...

So much so that Lake Erie reached its winter peak for this season for ice coverage. Roughly 95 per cent of the lake was covered in ice on Feb. 18, according to satellite data released by the ...

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could the ...

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and swings in air temperature can influence ice coverage “more rapidly than other lakes,” said James Kessler, physical scientist with the Great ...

Lake Erie does have a long history of environmental ... Buffalo District regularly tests lake sediment and has found those pollution levels have dropped to low levels considered safe to aquatic ...

Historically, water celery was abundant in Lake Erie, but by the 1990s, water pollution had greatly reduced populations, and ...

Lake Erie's ice coverage, which peaked in mid-February, is beginning to thaw due to increasing temperatures and winds. While the ice is thawing, it is also shifting, with winds pushing it eastward ...

Cold air. Proper bouts of snow. And Lake Erie is mostly iced over. As of Feb. 18, 2025 Lake Erie is 94.78% iced over (scroll down to see a satellite picture of the Lake). This is stark change to ...