Risks are escalating for ecosystems, fisheries water quality and coastal infrastructure, like power plants and drinking water systems.

An accidental trip over the Peace Bridge in Buffalo typically means a toll and a loss of time. But for Victor, crossing an international border carried a higher cost.

Mike Sgarbossa is set to play for HC Lugano. The veteran forward leaves North America for the Swiss National League. He ...

As it stands, almost all monitoring is done during the spring, summer and early fall months when there's easier access to ...

Flooding, record-setting tornadoes, droughts with no historical comparison. The impacts of climate change are already being ...

The Great Lakes saw more than 50% ice coverage in February. As temperatures warm up, that percentage is falling quickly. Here's the current status.

Lakes Superior and Michigan hit their peak ice cover with about 45% and 33%, respectively. Lake Erie was almost completely iced over for numerous days in February, reaching max ice cover of about ...

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes and swings in air temperature can influence ice coverage “more rapidly than other lakes,” said James Kessler, physical scientist with the Great ...

For coastal communities, he says, ice cover protects against erosion. "If you drive along the Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie, you see evidence of receding bluffs, and that's because those bluffs ...