Chicago author Barb Rosenstock writes award-winning books for children of all ages. Her young-adult nonfiction book “American ...

An early-season heat wave is expected to build across much of the eastern United States next week, pushing temperatures into ...

Here's a look at the 10 largest islands on the Great Lakes, spread among U.S. and Canadian waters across the lakes.

Buffalo's legendary snowfall totals are largely the result of one unlucky geographic reality: the city sits east of the Great ...

The Great Lakes were much larger 15,000 years ago. This map shows the earlier, larger versions of the lakes, while the red marks identify the iceberg plowmarks found by researchers.