A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...

A new study puts more scientific teeth behind everything from having white Christmases to how long ski hills stay open: Winters on the Great Lakes are ... the year. A lack of ice and change ...

This Great Lakes ice season has proven to be much better than the past ... These blooms suck up oxygen and block sunlight, which makes it harder for aquatic life to survive. Scientists say that the ...

Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover ... and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not ...

This Great Lakes ice season ... During the 2023-2024 ice season, average ice cover across all five lakes was only 4.3% — the lowest on record since scientists began recording ice cover more ...

This phenomenon is part of a larger trend of warming winters and declining ice cover in the Great Lakes region ... that it goes against what has been established in science textbooks. Typically, deep ...

The Great Lakes reached their highest ice coverage in three years on Feb. 22, hitting 52.23%. Warming temperatures have caused that percentage to shrink to nearly zero. With continuing above ...

A board of scientists has proposed a system to monitor microplastics in the Great Lakes. Currently, there’s no coordinated, regional effort to do so. Research suggests the concentration of ...

The 2024-2025 Great Lakes ice ... During the 2023-2024 ice season, average ice cover across all five lakes was only 4.3% — the lowest on record since scientists began recording ice cover more ...

CHICAGO — As an ice sheet thousands of feet ... At least that’s what scientists have long believed about the formation of the Great Lakes. But a recent study suggests that the timeline ...