https://www.wcmu.org/tags/lake-superior Lake Superior en-US Copyright Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:16:51 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2025-12-26/plane-search-helps-research-team-map-part A team from Michigan Technological University has been searching since 2024 for a National Center for Atmospheric Research aircraft that crashed in Lake Superior in 1968. While the search has come up unsuccessful, they've been able to map 45 square miles of previously unknown lakebed. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:16:51 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2025-12-26/plane-search-helps-research-team-map-part Brianna Edgar https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-09-10/buffalo-reef-cleanup-chugs-along-with-decades-long-project A $2 billion cleanup in Lake Superior to address pollution from historical copper mining is still in the works. Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:52:48 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-09-10/buffalo-reef-cleanup-chugs-along-with-decades-long-project Teresa Homsi https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-09-09/autonomous-vessel-deployed-to-search-for-missing-plane-in-lake-superior In 1968, a plane carrying three people went missing in Lake Superior. On Thursday, an unmanned autonomous surface vessel was deployed in Houghton on a search to find it. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 20:55:41 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2024-09-09/autonomous-vessel-deployed-to-search-for-missing-plane-in-lake-superior Alvin (AJ) Jones https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2023-08-22/contaminated-site-in-paradise-doesnt-qualify-for-epa-cleanup The federal agency says it won’t get involved in cleaning up a contaminated site in the eastern upper peninsula that borders Lake Superior. Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:16:22 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2023-08-22/contaminated-site-in-paradise-doesnt-qualify-for-epa-cleanup Teresa Homsi https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2021-03-25/fish-found-in-lake-superior-could-be-contain-harmful-chemicals Health department officials suggest limiting the amount of Rainbow Smelt you eat from Lake Superior to one serving a month.These little fish are popular… Thu, 25 Mar 2021 21:22:49 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2021-03-25/fish-found-in-lake-superior-could-be-contain-harmful-chemicals Lexi Krupp https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2020-08-04/great-lakes-water-levels-may-start-going-down Water levels on the Great Lakes have broken high-water records in recent months. But four of the five lakes now appear to be on the decline.With the… Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:50:56 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2020-08-04/great-lakes-water-levels-may-start-going-down Dan Wanschura https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2019-08-12/microplastics-threaten-lake-superior A new contaminant is threatening Lake Superior. Microplastics … which include plastic fragments under five millimeters … have been discovered in the… Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:33:12 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2019-08-12/microplastics-threaten-lake-superior Lawson https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-05-15/great-lake-water-levels-expected-high-for-the-summer-some-record-highs All of the Great Lakes are projected to have higher than average water levels over the next several months, with Lakes Superior and Erie expected to break… Wed, 15 May 2019 14:39:05 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-05-15/great-lake-water-levels-expected-high-for-the-summer-some-record-highs Nick Westendorp https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-03-04/lake-superior-could-set-highest-recorded-water-level-in-30-years-this-summer Water levels in the Great Lakes are on track to be the highest they’ve been in over 30 years.The Army Corps of Engineers says if their projections hold,… Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:59:04 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-03-04/lake-superior-could-set-highest-recorded-water-level-in-30-years-this-summer https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-02-28/lake-superior-ice-coverage-could-match-historic-highs Ice coverage of Lake Superior could be on track to match historic records.The most recent year that had comparable ice coverage was 2015 at roughly 80… Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:05:19 GMT https://www.wcmu.org/health-science-and-environment/2019-02-28/lake-superior-ice-coverage-could-match-historic-highs