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Today, a new episode of "Beyond the Shore." Plus, what funding cuts at NOAA might mean for research being done on the Great Lakes. And, how local governments across Michigan are handling large-scale battery projects.

Lake Superior's history stretches back more than one billion years. And for some, the connection to the water is reborn every day.

Data from NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory show the Great Lakes are covered in ice. Here’s how much, what causes it, and some satellite photos of the coverage.

First, some clarifications on food aid during the government shutdown, followed by one Michigander SNAP recipient's story. Then, a survivor of a fishing boat's capsizing, caused by the same storm which sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, shares his memory of that day. Plus, Michigan Public's On Hand featured a listener's tale of a supernatural encounter.

Long a threat to southern Ontario lakes, climate change is allowing cyanobacteria -or blue-green algae- to thrive in even the coldest of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior.

A group of swimmers plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck by symbolically completing the ship’s mission.

A new study shows the Great Lakes are vulnerable to more extreme temperature highs and lows over the decades due to climate change.

Decades of industrial pollution on Lake Superior has seen stretches of its shore deemed areas of environmental concern for both Canada and the U.S. A massive investment of time and money is letting nature return.

The Case Western – one of the first modern all-steel ships to sail the Great Lakes – broke apart and sank under mysterious conditions about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior in 1892. 27 people perished in the wreck.

After the population of Lake Superior's top predator fish fell by 95%, the lake trout restoration effort has returned it to sustainable levels, researchers say.