Lakes more sensitive to climate change than landscapes
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[…]
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Great Lakes ice disappearing rapidly
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[…]
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Wisconsin fish could become climate change casualty
According to a new study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 30 to 70 percent of Wisconsin’s cisco fish, sometimes called lake herring, could become nonexistent in Wisconsin lakes by the year 2100 due to changing climate conditions.
Landmark fish study planned for Lake Tanganyika
Four countries will be teaming up to study the volume of fish in the world’s second-oldest and second-deepest lake, Tanzania’s Lake Tanganyika. The landmark study on the 13-million-year-old and one-mile-deep[…]
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