Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more.

Pancake ice was spotted floating on Lake Michigan near Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, January 19, as dangerously cold wind chills swept through the area. "RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please ...

Jim Shell Share Early coho in Chicago and ongoing perch on southern Lake Michigan lead this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report; ice is retreating inland. The photo at the top of Casey Shell ...

A Chicago life coach braved single-digit temperatures to walk across “ice pancakes” that formed in Lake Michigan this week, a chill-inducing Instagram video showed. George Donald Miller was ...

CHICAGO - Temperatures have been running ... shelf ice has begun developing near the shoreline along parts of Lake Michigan. Shelf ice forms when currents and waves carry floating ice to the ...

Dan O'Conor, aka the Great Lake Jumper, leaps into Lake Michigan every morning for the solitude and a splash of rejuvenation.

RIPPLE EFFECT: Thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the Loop and along ...

CHICAGO – Rescue crews pulled a man from the icy waters of Lake Michigan Sunday morning. Officials said authorities received a call about someone in the water at Burnham Harbor near Soldier ...

CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer was shot and killed Thursday night during a foot chase on the South Side; construction on ...

Steam fog emits from Lake Michigan near Montrose Harbor ... A woman walks along the Riverfront looking at the remaining ice chunks in the Chicago River, in The Loop, as rain showers fall across ...