Lake ice quality degrading as planet warms—skaters, hockey players, ice truckers on thin ice
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Lake ice quality degrading as planet warms—skaters, hockey players, ice truckers on thin ice
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-lake-ice-quality-degrading-planet.html
Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as a new study out of York University found, looks can be deceiving. Warming winters are not only affecting ice thickness and timing—when a lake freezes and thaws—but also quality, making it potentially unstable and unsafe.