Lake Superior's Slate Islands are home to what's likely the world's largest shatter cone, evidence of an explosive event 450 million years ago.

Well, yes. And no. Actually, it depends on where you stand, in more ways than one.

These adventurous turn-of-the-century women announced their independence by buying their own islands in Ontario's Georgian Bay.

In the Great Lakes region, what some consider a weed is actually a sacred seed.

For half a century, researchers have been spilling chemicals in the waters of northwestern Ontario.

Who is Catharine McGill Crooks, and what happened to her specimen collection?

Listen in as they swat away mosquitoes and brave a dark forest to eavesdrop on echolocation.

In Ontario this year, researchers propagated a rare species and released it back into the wild.