Across continents and civilizations, massive bodies of water have quietly shaped human history. While some call them seas and others name them lakes, these inland waterways continue to influence ...

Bison grazing on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. With hundreds of thousands of lakes spread across the United States, most of us aren’t too far from a body of water perfect for fishing, boating, or ...

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of 62 feet, but it is also the most biologically productive. All of the Great Lakes rank among the 15 largest lakes in the world ...

This study is led by Prof. Lian Feng (School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology). Algal blooms were present in nearly half of the world's 1956 ...