Equipped with snowmobiles, sleds and ice picks, scientists to launch first-ever winter study of the Great Lakes

As temperatures climb, ice coverage is diminishing overall, at a rate of about 5% per decade. The depths of Lake Michigan are warming, and its winter season is shortening. Lake Superior is among the most rapidly warming lakes on earth.

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