In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem ...

Let's explain how ice jams form with 3D graphics: Ice jams happen when warmer weather begins to break apart the ice in frozen creeks/rivers, but there are still plenty of large floating ice chunks ...

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Pour warm water into a bucket. Add rock salt crystals to it. (A good ratio is 1 gallon water to 1 cup rock salt, but this is ...

Last week’s warm spell and rain led to many rivers across the region starting to ‘break up.’ That looks like thick cakes of ice floating atop flowing rivers, getting pushed ashore ...

When the air is cold enough for a long while, ice commonly pops up on the Rock River and other nearby ... When warmer weather melts and breaks up the river ice, the floating chunks of ice can ...

At Wildcat Canyon at Starved Rock State Park, frozen waterfalls are just right — in the right kind of weather — for ice climbing. On the day CBS News Chicago joined Dave Everson and Bruce ...