How ice cover affects not just pond hockey and ice fishing but seemingly unrelated things such as summertime blue-green algae outbreaks.
Flood and storm protection
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Something weird is going on': search for answers as Antarctic sea
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The Arctic Revolution That's Changing Climate Science
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Great Lakes ice cover is nearly non-existent, reaches 50-year record low
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Emerging unprecedented lake ice loss in climate change projections
Climate change: Lakes freezing later leads to less algae in spring
Ice Safety & Changes - FOCA
The Floods, the Farms, and the River That Roared Back
Nearly 5,700 lakes could lose winter ice cover permanently this century: study