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Nov. 7, 2020 —A long-standing mystery in the study of glaciers was recently and serendipitously solved. A trigger was identified for some of the largest floods on Earth -- those emerging suddenly and unpredictably ...
Sep. 23, 2022 —If global warming persists, blue lakes worldwide are at risk of turning green-brown, according to a new study which presents the a global inventory of lake color. Shifts in lake water color can ...
July 19, 2022 —Data scientists has published a comprehensive global dataset of the lakes and reservoirs on Earth showing how they have changed over the last 30+ ...
Mar. 5, 2021 —In its large caldera, Newberry volcano (Oregon, USA) has two small volcanic lakes, one fed by volcanic geothermal fluids (Paulina Lake) and one by gases (East Lake). These popular fishing grounds are ...
Feb. 17, 2021 —Lakes underneath the Antarctic ice sheet could be more hospitable than previously thought, allowing them to host more microbial ...
Nov. 4, 2021 —Researchers investigated the long-term contamination of Lake Onuma in Japan resulting from the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. They devised a formula based on a framework known as the ...
Oct. 4, 2022 —Only satellites were watching when the world's fourth-largest proglacial lake suddenly drained in 2020. Researchers now uncovered the event and analyzed the cause -- the collapse of a sediment ...
Oct. 21, 2021 —Lakes in the Northern Hemisphere are warming six times faster since 1992 than any other time period in the last 100 years, new research has ...
May 18, 2023 —Fifty-three percent of the world's largest freshwater lakes are in decline, storing less water than they did three decades ago, according to a new study. The study analyzed satellite ...
Aug. 2, 2022 —Lakes and other freshwater systems emit large quantities of methane, which is the second most important greenhouse gas worldwide after CO2. Dredging and the use of Phoslock (a phosphate-binding clay ...