The kids fished for Northern Pike, walleye, crappy and panfish on the lake where the old Lac Vieux Desert village used to be.

The lake, surrounded by sand dunes near the small desert city of Zulfi, lasts only about three months a year. "One day, my friends challenged me to ride a jet ski," said Hamm, who started out on a ...

The average annual ice cover over the Great Lakes region responds very closely to seasonal changes in annual temperature. However, each lake exhibits its own individual response and timescale ...

but in the heart of the Saudi Arabian desert. Sand-caked SUVs ring the temporary lake, formed by winter rains, as Hamm zips across the impromptu watersports centre doing donuts.

The ear-splitting roar of his jet ski fills the air as Hamza al-Hamm thunders past, kicking up plumes of water -- not at the beach, but in the heart of the Saudi Arabian desert. Sand-caked SUVs ...