As winters warm, Minnesota lakes are losing ice

Much of Island Lake in Gnesen Township 18 miles north of Duluth, Minn., is covered with ice, but there are large portions where the ice is thin, open water is flowing and the ice is pocked with signs of creeping water as seen here on Nov. 30.
Derek Montgomery for MPR News
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