GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The U.S. Coast Guard Detroit Sector says icebreaking season on the lower Great Lakes is ...

Ice cover in the Great Lakes has been declining for the past five decades due to climate change. This will be met with extreme year-to-year fluctuations, evidenced by the near record lows followed ...

As of March 16, average ice cover across the lakes was roughly 13.5%. Lake Superior was at 9.2%, and Lake Michigan was at 10.7%.

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 ...

Great Lakes ice coverage currently stands at 9.13 ... Lake Superior has frozen over once since 1973, according to NOAA. The lake had 100% ice cover in 1996. Lake Michigan's ice cover high was ...

So far this winter season, maximum ice cover peaked at about 52% across the Great Lakes after February's polar vortex brought gripping cold to the region. That number is about the same as the long ...

This phenomenon is part of a larger trend of warming winters and declining ice cover in the Great Lakes region. A new study has found that climate change is erasing a fundamental annual phenomenon in ...

The NYSDEC says that millions of alewife fish were killed this winter due to the substantial ice coverage along Lake Erie.

The spring storm brought freezing rain and sleet to the Great Lakes region over the weekend ... was closed on Monday because of hazardous ice conditions, the authorities said.

Great Lakes Energy officials expect the restoration effort to take multiple days. “Damage to the cooperative’s electric ...

141 vessels contributed more than 900 hours of icebreaking assistance and preventative support during this season.