The world’s largest ice skating rink is 5 miles long—but its very existence is threatened by climate change
Slush canons, snow bots, and possibly heat pumps could help preserve ice on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal as winters shrink.
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Photos: Sousaphones on skates, rhythm at the rink for Brown Band’s annual on-ice performance
During a weekend hockey matchup against Harvard, dozens of Brown University alumni laced up their skates to join the band’s ...
Figure skating community gathers for ‘Legacy on Ice’ to honor those lost in January plane crash
Little more than a month after a tragic air disaster took the lives of 28 members of the US figure skating community, ...
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A Minnesota synagogue built an ice rink — and is inaugurating it with a klezmer skate
It’s so cold that instruments are freezing up at the Twin Cities’ Klezmer on Ice festival ... ever skating rink on a synagogue property. The rink, which can accommodate about 30 people ...
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In the state of hockey, climate change leads to fewer skating rinks
It takes at least a month of watering the ground 14 hours a day to create the base of the rinks. Once the ice ... were speed skating championships on the lake and a couple thousand people would ...
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An ice rink to fight the opioid crisis? Some regrets over settlement cash spending
Instead, people are left wondering how a skating ... “And we’re putting an ice-skating rink in. That’s insane to me.” A yearlong investigation by KFF Health News, along with researchers ...