2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (833+ words) WorldAtlas The Great Lakes...depth, size, location, currents, and surrounding climate. Perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (269+ words) WorldAtlas California's largest lake was created by accident, and more than a century later, keeping it from turning into an even greater environmental disaster is proving enormously difficult. The Salton Sea almost feels as if it were horribly fated. It…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (343+ words) More than 180 non-native aquatic species have been recorded in the Great Lakes basin. One notorious invader, however, has so far been kept from establishing a reproducing population in the lakes themselves: the silver carp. Silver carp were brought to the…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1392+ words) Here is what actually happens, in order, when the snow fails twice. Not a metaphor. Colorado's snowpack stores roughly 15 million acre-feet of water at its spring peak, which is a volume comparable to a major reservoir, and it releases that…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1004+ words) WorldAtlas Lake Michigan does not need to lose enormous amounts of water before the consequences become measurable. Because it is hydraulically connected to Lake Huron through the Straits of Mackinac, scientists track the pair as Lake Michigan-Huron, and their shared…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (945+ words) WorldAtlas Tens of millions of people draw their drinking water from the Great Lakes, and the wastewater systems built to protect that supply are among the most advanced in North America. Even so, untreated and partly treated sewage still reaches…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (923+ words) WorldAtlas Lake Superior holds 10% of the planet's fresh surface water, and it drains through a single narrow outlet at Sault Ste. Marie. In a wet enough stretch of years, precipitation, snowmelt, and runoff can add water faster than evaporation and…...