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 ...

The globe is warming — and that includes the Great Lakes. The five interconnected ... there so we do need ice-breaking capabilities to sample ... It's unsafe, it requires special training." The ...

Scientists say up until ... it as a "master variable" of the Great Lakes, Xenopoulos, a professor of biology at Trent University and member of the IJC, says ice cover controls a number of factors ...

Then new technology opened up the markets for Great Lakes fish far and wide. In 1868, a Detroit man developed a refrigerator rail car. It was cooled by an ice and salt mixture ... fishers,” said ...

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 ...

Two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to ...

This data include lake temperature and ice cover readings ... storm surge and flood risks, scientists say. One major project at risk is the Great Lakes Coastal and Inland Flood Inundation ...

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...

The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, based in Michigan, is a research hub for the world’s largest surface freshwater system. Scientists at the laboratory research and monitor ice ...

Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...