Did you know the Great Lakes experience a rare winter phenomenon called ice volcanoes? These icy eruptions form when waves ...

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 ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

If temperatures are too moderate for too long, the newly formed ice will melt and ice coverage will decrease. Peak ice coverage for the Great Lakes happens in late February/early March.

Tuesday afternoon, the Coast Guard, along with Catawba Island first responders ... Sustained cold caused rapid icing on the Great Lakes with the highest total ice cover reported since the historic ...

When ice piles up along Great Lakes shorelines ... Weak ice: ice formed by melted and refrozen snow. Appears milky. Stay off ice with slush on top. Slush ice is only half as strong as clear ...

The chaos surrounding the future of scientific research in the Trump administration’s first weeks ... new program where ice fishing anglers and others on the frozen Great Lakes record ice ...

There’s a hole in what we know about ice on the Great Lakes. While satellites can see ... the data won’t be released to the public at first, instead informing existing ice modeling efforts ...