Lake Superior

Mandi Young, a science teacher at The Pathfinder School, spent the week aboard the Lake Guardian taking water samples, working with EPA scientists, and thinking of ways to bring the experience to her students this school year. She spoke with IPR Climate Solutions Reporter Vivian La about her trip.

A science teacher at The Pathfinder School was one of two Michigan teachers selected for a week-long trip aboard the Environmental Protection Agency's largest research vessel traveling across Lake Superior.

Pink salmon have been in the Great Lakes for 70 years. But recent growth in their numbers has scientists asking new questions.

Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's a raging storm. When people in the water get caught off-guard, rescuers have to balance being the hero and knowing when to call it quits.

For almost seven years, Bugsy Sailor has been on a mission to watch every sunrise. But now, he wonders if the inspiration that started this project will also be the thing that ends it.

November 10, 1975: The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in a massive storm on Lake Superior. But just miles away, a few fishermen are struggling in the same storm — fighting for survival.

After Traci Lynn Martin’s mom died, she knew she couldn’t keep putting off her dream: Becoming the first person to kayak around the Great Lakes in one year.

The Vermillion Point Life Saving Station sits near Whitefish Point on the shores of Lake Superior.

On Monday, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced the discovery of the Western Reserve, which sank in Lake Superior 132 years ago, in 1892.

One calm September day, Big Abe LeBlanc set his fishing net in Lake Superior. Then he called law enforcement and turned himself in. What happened next changed fishing in the Great Lakes forever.