The dolphins need open water to breath, and the mayor says there’s only about 60 metres of ice blocking their escape into White Bay.

A pod of killer whales is trapped in a small pool of water surrounded by ice in Hudson’s Bay, but icebreakers — the only machinery that can help to save them — are out of reach.

A 202-metre-long Canadian bulk carrier became trapped in heavy ice on eastern Lake Erie for the second time in just more than two months near Buffalo, N.Y. Lower Lakes Towing Ltd.’s Manitoulin, first ...