Climate change is not only causing a crisis for our oceans and saltwater coasts, but it is also having a profound affect on the Great Lakes region. With funding from the Pulitzer Center, the Chicago Tribune team visited each lake to discover how coastal life is changing.
The ferry boat from Madeline Island on Lake Superior to Bayfield, Wisconsin.
A storm approaching a sea kayaker on Lake Superior in Canada.
Big waves on Lake Michigan at Promontory Point in Chicago.
Surfing during a winter storm at 57th Street Beach in Chicago.
A hailstorm while sea kayaking on Lake Superior in Canada.
Kenneth Kloster Sr., " Captain Ken," above, rides a boat to his home on Dollar Island in the Les Cheneaux Islands on Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Buzwah Fisheries, below left, an aquaculture site raising rainbow trout and community grounds, below right, at the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.
The boat of commercial fisherman Drew Koch, owner of Whites Landing Fisheries in Sandusky, Ohio, returns home on Sandusky Bay after fishing in Lake Erie.
The boat of commercial fisherman Drew Koch, top, owner of Whites Landing Fisheries in Sandusky, Ohio, fishes in Lake Erie. The intake crib in Lake Erie, below left, for the Collins Park Water Treatment Plant in Toledo, Ohio and below right, liquid cow manure storage at the Bridgewater Dairy near Montpelier, Ohio,
An aerial view of erosion at the condominiums along the Lake Michigan shoreline at South Shore Drive in Chicago.
Aerial views of the damage on the Lakefront Trail at South Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
A family evacuates the area as Lake Michigan waves crash near their home on South Shore Drive in Chicago during a winter storm.
National Park Service employees, left, work on emergency erosion control at Lake View Beach in Beverly Shores, Indiana, and homeowner Mike Sands, right, watches as workers build a revetment in front of his house in South Haven, Michigan.
Ice caves, left, on the shore of Lake Superior in the Red Cliff Reservation in Wisconsin, and a fat tire bike race, right, across frozen Lake Superior on Chequamegon Bay in Washburn, Wisconsin.
Sea kayaking on Lake Superior in Canada.