Nearly four kilometres beneath the East Antarctic ice sheet, Lake Vostok sits in darkness under enough ice to hide one of the ...

Lakes are freezing later, thawing earlier and experiencing dramatic temperature swings in between. And all that throws off the delicate balance of... Spring ice is thawing earlier in lakes. What does ...

Beneath the coldest, most remote plateau on Earth, a body of freshwater roughly the size of Lake Ontario has remained cut off ...

A research collaboration, including a team of students from the University of Michigan, has published a new report that dives into an understudied aspect on changing ice cover on the Great Lakes.

A recent deep freeze caused a significant increase in ice coverage across the Great Lakes. As of Jan. 25, the Great Lakes system was 43.18% frozen over, with Lake Erie having the most ice at 92% ...

The Great Lakes are currently at 33.19% ice coverage, the highest point so far in 2025. This year's ice coverage is significantly higher than the past two years, with Lake Erie reaching 92.9% coverage ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on Feb. 22, hitting 52.23%. A warming trend has caused ice coverage to plummet. Ice on the Great Lakes is steadily retreating under ...

Ice fascinates Richard Behr. Almost every winter day, the 66-year-old central Maine resident checks out satellite images of some of his favorite lakes and ponds for “wild” skating. He drives out to ...