Clear Frozen Lake in Slovakia's High Tatras: Walking on See-Through Ice
Two hikers step onto a frozen mountain lake in Slovakia's High Tatras, and the ice is so clear that every stone on the bottom shows thro...
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Lake Ice: Frozen Landscapes, Patterns & Change
A frozen lake can display transparent ice, pale fractures or ridges of broken slabs. Those patterns make fascinating photographs, but appearance alone cannot establish whether a surface will support a person. This collection explores what the images show and how ice changes, with related stories on winter weather and the landscapes around it.
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18 Frozen Lakes, Ponds and Seas: Baikal, Abraham Lake and Frost Flowers
When water freezes, it can record its own story: methane bubbles stacked like coins under the surface, turquoise slabs pushed up by the win...
Clear Frozen Lake in Slovakia's High Tatras: Walking on Transparent Ice
Two friends step out onto a frozen mountain lake in Slovakia's High Tatras, and the ice is so clear that every stone on the bottom show...
Crazy Canucks Ice Fishing Video: Swimmers Emerge from the Hole
A group of friends sits around a hole in the ice somewhere in northern Ontario, waiting for a bite. Instead of a fish, a man in swim trunks...
Frozen Lake Sound: Why Rocks Skipped on Ice Sound Like a Star Wars Blaster
Cory Williams picked up a rock, threw it across a frozen lake in Alaska and stopped dead. Instead of a dull clatter, the ice fired back a s...
Lake Puma Yumco Ice Patterns: Tibet's Frozen Lake Seen from Space
Lake Puma Yumco sits 5,030 m (16,503 ft) above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau, about 140 km southwest of Lhasa. On 6 January 2006, astron...
Lake Baikal Ice Hummocks: How Turquoise Ridges Form and Where to See Them
Every March, Lake Baikal's frozen surface breaks into fields of turquoise slabs, some standing upright like broken glass, others piled ...
Frost Flowers on Lake Ice: How the Crystals Form
On a cold, still morning, new ice on a lake can sprout a whole meadow of white "flowers". These frost flowers are clusters of ice...
Ten Amazing Places Shaped by Snow and Ice, from Lake Baikal to Tadami
Winter does not just cover a landscape, it rebuilds it. Lake water freezes around rising bubbles, waves turn a lighthouse into an ice sculp...
Lake Michigan Ice Balls at South Haven: How Lake Ice Rolls into Spheres
During the deep freeze of January 2014, the shore of Lake Michigan near South Haven filled with hundreds of rounded lumps of ice, bobbing a...
Ice Shove 2013: Lake Ice Destroys Homes at Dauphin Lake and Mille Lacs
In May 2013, strong winds drove sheets of lake ice onto the shores of two lakes, one in Minnesota and one in Manitoba, crushing decks, smas...
Car Through Lake Ice: A Russian Crowd Hauls an SUV Out of a Frozen Lake
A light-coloured SUV sits in a channel of broken lake ice, water up to its windows, while a crowd of men in winter gear stands around it wi...