<> Great Lakes ice cover update: See Lake Michigan ice disappear, and where records were set - Peak ice has been reached on the Great Lakes and now the ice is rapidly disappearing.
<> Great Lakes shipping industry to inject $500 million into infrastructure - The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway system is spending $500 million over the next four years to rebuild lock walls and gates and automate the system that connects the eastern Great Lakes with the St. Lawrence River.