President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

Since 1973, ice coverage has fallen by 77% on Lake Michigan and 71% on the Great Lakes as a whole. That has a far-reaching ...

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes are seeing significant ice creation, with Lake Erie nearly completely frozen over. Lake Erie was about 80% ...

The Arctic air over the Great Lakes last week did cause a surge in ice concentration for most of the Great Lakes. Here’s a look at how the percentage of ice cover today compares to historical ...

They measured water temperatures and ice coverage over the chain of vast freshwater lakes, and the numbers ... such as the alewife and American gizzard shad, thrive in warmer waters, according ...

This story has been updated with new information. When ice piles up along Great Lakes shorelines, it can create spectacular blue ice, craggy piles and "volcanoes" that spray water high into the ...

This bitterly cold air allowed for plentiful lake-effect snow to fall and grew Great Lakes ice coverage. Even though temperatures now have become more seasonable, the cold stretch last week has ...