Two off-road vehicle owners learned an expensive lesson Sunday when their vehicles broke through thin ice on a prohibited area of Cedar Lake during an ice race Sunday afternoon.

CBS News Chicago Live. CEDAR LAKE, Ind. (CBS) -- Two off-road vehicles broke through the ice in Cedar Lake, Indiana and sank Sunday. Cedar Lake police were called Sunday for a utility-task vehicle ...

Lake Baikal’s largely clear ice supports large mats of algae that grow underneath. Credit: Sergey Pesterev/CC BY-SA 2.0. She and her colleagues eventually synthesized the existing data, and in ...

Satellite images show that Russia’s Lake Baikal remains without solid ice cover "It’s been a warm winter in Baikal, as observed from space," Roscosmos said in comments to its posted pictures.

DELAFIELD - Two days after a 61-year-old man fatally fell through the ice on Pewaukee Lake, details have become clearer, but other information, including why the ice was so thin, remained elusive. ...

Loss of lake ice has wide-ranging environmental and societal consequences Many lakes are freezing later, melting earlier, or both. These changes affect more than a billion people worldwide.

Furthermore, ice loss both results in increased evaporation of lake water—which over time could decrease the surrounding community's access to freshwater—and potentially exposes those living ...