Climate Change Spurring Toxic Algal Blooms In Great Lakes
The impacts of climate change to the Great Lakes are expected to be broad and far-reaching, affecting heat waves, crop production and air quality in the region. Harmful algal blooms,[…]
The impacts of climate change to the Great Lakes are expected to be broad and far-reaching, affecting heat waves, crop production and air quality in the region. Harmful algal blooms,[…]
Aral Sea This lake’s waters reached so far in the 1800s that the Russian navy used to deploy ships to patrol it. The Aral Sea once had an area larger[…]
New research on a globally distributed set of lakes shows that lakes are more sensitive to changes in temperature than are land ecosystems. As organisms respire they produce CO2, an[…]
New research shows that the amount of ice covering the Great Lakes has declined on average by 71 percent over the past 40 years. Lake Ontario has lost the most[…]