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,[…]
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All Dried Up: Five Disappearing Lakes
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[…]
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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[…]
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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