Lake ice concentration is off to a slow start in the Great Lakes region, triggering harrowing rescues for fishermen who have ventured onto unsafe ice sheets. It's the slowest beginning to ice ...

The Great Lakes had the smallest amount of ice cover this New Year’s Day in at least the past 50 years and are on track to ...

Warming global temperatures due to climate change have caused lake ice to "reduce bearing strength, implying more dangerous conditions for transportation (limiting operational use of many winter roads ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...

As global warming and climate change persist, the melting of ice in lakes poses severe and misunderstood threats to ...

Closer to home in Ohio, ice fishing and inter-island travel are important to maintaining the cultural identity and social ...

In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.

Deploy under-ice robots. Study lake ecology and fish biology. Capture sonar images with autonomous subsurface vehicles. Investigate aerosol chemistry and how warm winters impact the coastal food chain ...

In winter 2023-24, the Great Lakes’ ice cover was near record lows, peaking at just 16%. Researchers explain how diminishing ice could have consequences for fisheries, and how species are evolving.