as people were seen out on the ice Feb. 5, at the south end of Wolf Lake on Chicago’s Southeast Side. But conditions weren’t ideal. “It’s starting to melt near the shore,” Indicavitch said.

It makes sense that more than one recent winter with low ice conditions would lead to a lot of sand movement in the near-shore areas, said Mark Breederland, a sustainable shoreline expert with ...

With heavy snow, rain and then ice earlier this week ... not so much in terms of a highway official but as a geologist — sand is typically used. Because "we have abundant sand from the legacy ...

The wolf then made its way to a narrow channel on a Lake Superior bay, where a gray-colored area of thin, snow-covered ice had formed only within the past day, Peterson said. The wolf punched its ...

the Greenland ice sheet experienced net ice loss for the 26th year in a row. But that loss is producing a potentially valuable resource: sand, which the melting ice sheet is depositing on the coast.