Outdoor Skating Rinks Are On Thin Ice
David Suzuki
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Posted 03.25.2013
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Canada
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One benefit of the National Hockey League strike: it gave people time to play outside on real ice! But outdoor skating could face the same difficulties as the NHL -- a drastically shorter season or outright cancellation. Research from Montreal's McGill and Concordia universities shows global warming is already having an effect on outdoor rinks in Canada.
