But no matter the season, one researcher says it's been her experience that studying the Great Lakes is treated like a second-class science. Ice and snow drifts cover the water near the Mackinac ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science ... the Great Lakes began millions of years ago but wasn't completed until the last ice ...

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 ...

The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost 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 ...

James L. Amos / Getty Images Dan Titze, a physical scientist with the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab in Michigan, says adding to their scant information about ice thickness is ...

MILWAUKEE — A cool December may be priming the Great Lakes for a starkly different ice season after scientists saw a record-low level of ice cover this year, according to a new forecast.

A trio of Earth and atmospheric scientists at the University ... Prior research has shown that the Great Lakes were formed by ice movement during the last Ice Age—as the ice melted, it filled ...

The U.S. National Ice Center released its 2024-2025 seasonal outlook this month, predicting slightly below to near normal ice conditions across the Great Lakes — a stark turnaround from last ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes ... out during the ice age. After the glaciers retreated, their melt filled the lakes, which now hold ...