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The Great Salt Lake Isn’t Just Drying Out. It’s Warming the Planet. 0724
Climate Change Is Drying Up Titicaca, the Biggest Lake in the Andes 0624
Historic Lack of Great Lakes Ice Leads to Fewer Fish and More Algae 0324
Great Lakes Start 2024 with Smallest Amount of Ice in at Least 50 Years 0124
Climate Triage Means Some Cold Waters In Warming Great Lakes Won’t Be Saved 1023
Earth’s Highest Navigable Lake, Titicaca, Home to 3 Million People, Is Drying Out 0923
Shrinking Inland Seas Expose Salty Particulates and More 0623
Warming and Drying Climate Puts Many of the World’s Biggest Lakes in Peril 0523
Great Salt Lake Still at High Risk of Disappearing, after Epic Snow 0423
California’s Record Snowpack, Nearly Full Reservoirs after Epic Winter 0323
Largest US Reservoirs Moving in Right Direction - Filling Up 0323, on average, among Earth's lakes and reservoirs
A Great Toxic Dustbowl Could Soon Emerge from the Great Salt Lake 0223
Warming Climate Prompts Harmful Oxygen Loss in Lakes 1222
Lake Mead at 29% of Capacity, Lake Powell at 24% 1022
The World’s Biggest Source of Clean Energy Is Evaporating Fast 1022
Beavers Are Heat Wave Heroes 0722
Utah’s Great Salt Lake Hits New Historic Low, amid Drought in Western US 0722
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California’s Biggest Reservoirs at Critically Low Level, Portending Dry Summer 0622
California’s 2 Largest Reservoirs Are 'Critically Low' as Dry Season
West’s Megadrought Delivers Another Blow - Saving Glen Canyon Dam
Record Low Water Levels Reveal Body in Barrel at Lake Mead 0522
Lake Powell Officials’ Stark Choice in West's Megadrought - Water
Climate Change Has Destroyed This Once Popular Iraq Lake 0422
Lake Mead Hits Unprecedented Low, Exposing an Original Water
Drought Is Sinking Lake Powell's Water Level. Its Total Capacity
As Planet Warms, Less Ice Is Covering North American Lakes 0322
Iraq’s 2nd Largest Lake Is Drying Up, Turning Up Dead Fish 0222
The Great Lakes are Higher than They’ve Ever Been 0122
Lake Tahoe Water Level Hits 4-Year Low, amid Drought
Great Salt Lake’s Demise Spurs Water Emergency for Utah 1021
1st-Ever Water Cuts Declared for Colorado River in Historic Drought 0821
Lake Powell Hits Record Low Level, in Climate Change-Fueled Water Crisis 0721
Fast-Shrinking Great Salt Lake Poses Rising Hazards 0721
Great Salt Lake Drops to Record Low Levels 0721
Reservoirs Are Drying Up, as Consequences of the Western Drought Worsen 0721
Lakes Are Losing Oxygen—and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger 0621
The Shocking Numbers behind the Lake Mead Drought Crisis 0621
Lake Mead at Hoover Dam to Reach Lowest Water Level since It Filled in 1930s 062
- 1070 feet above sea level, 162 feet below max fill line
Climate Crisis Is Suffocating the World’s Lakes 0621 - Warmer water holds less oxygen (and pther gases). In some deeper lakes, warmer water at and near the surface (thermal stratification) reduces turnover (mixing with deep waters, often a seasonal phenomenon) that can bring up nutrients.
Cambodia’s Biggest Lake Is Running Dry, Taking Forests and Fish with It 0820
US Great Lake Levels Set Record Highs 0420
Climate Change Could Trigger Drastic Swings in Great Lakes Water Levels 0819
This Year’s Wild, Wet Spring Is Feeding Massive Blobs of Toxic Algae 0719
Climate Change Is Driving Rapid Shifts between High and Low Water Levels in the Great Lakes 0619
Great Lakes Basin Warming Faster than Other Parts of the US 0319
Poor Mixing of Lake Nutrients among Looming Climate Change Impacts 0319
Ancient Flood Stalled Ocean Circulation, Plunging Northern Hemisphere into a Millennium of Glacial Conditions 0718 - from glacial lakes covering much of Canada ~ 11,000 years ago (Younger Dryas), drainginto Arctic Ocean via MacKenzie River
Some of the World's Biggest Lakes Are Drying Up. Here's Why. 0218
Ecological Catastrophe Turned a Vast Bolivian Lake into a Salt Desert 0118
Why the Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking 1217
Scientists Think They Know Why the Caspian Sea Is Shrinking 0817
Can We Save Our Lakes from Global Warming? 0817
Parched Lanzhou, China Plans to Pipe Water 1,000 Km from Russia’s Lake Baikal 0317
Displaced Refugees Fear More Loss, as Lake Chad Shrinks 1116
Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up at Alarming Rate – Satellites 1116
World’s Longest Lake Is Being Depleted of Life as Waters Warm 0816
Warming at Alarming Rate, Lake Tahoe Reflects Rapid Sierra Climate Change 0716
Lake Mead Declines to Lowest Level in History 0516 - Level rebounded more than 10 feet by early 2018.
Saving Iran's Precious Lake Urmia 0416
El Niño Is Rapidly Filling California's Once-Dusty Reservoirs, Easing Drought 0316
Many of World’s Lakes Are Vanishing. Some May Be Gone Forever. 0316
Will the Great Salt Lake Be Reduced to Dust? 0216
Rising Lake Temperatures May Worsen Algae Blooms 1215 - 0.61° per decade in world’s 235 largest lakes
Globally, Lakes Warming at an Alarming Rate 1215 - and up to 1.3°F per decade in northern latitudes
Great Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risk as the Seas 1215
On Thin Ice - Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed 1115
Lake Baikal's Water Levels Drop to Record Low 0115
Climate Change Makes It Harder to Save Lake Erie 0914
Southwest Braces as Lake Mead Water Levels Drop 0814
Lake Mead Reservoir Drops to Record Low 0714
Alaska's Arctic Icy Lakes Lose Thickness 0214
With Great Lakes Stuck at Historic Lows, Talk Turns to Adapting 1013
Warming Lake Superior Prompts a Tribe to Try a New Fish 1013
Changing Clarity Reflects Climate Change at Lake Tahoe 0813
Carbon Acidification Could Harm Great Lakes Wildlife 0713
Falling Great Lakes Water Levels Fall Take Toll on Shipping 0613
Lakes Mead and Powell May Dry Up within Decades 0213
2 Great Lakes Hit Record Low Water 0213
Record Low Water in Lake Michigan 0113
Wisconsin Lakeshore Communities Struggle with Low Water Levels 1212
Reservoir Lake Effect Can Worsen Local Flooding 1212
Warming, Variabiity Drive Near-Record Low Water in Great Lakes 1112
Lake Mead Continues to Shrink before Our Eyes 0622
1,045 feet above sea level as of June 12, much below 1,057-feet worst-case scenario from August 2021, for June 2022. Down 5.6 feet in only 3 weeks.
Lake Mead Declines to Lowest Level in History 0516 - Level rebounded more than 10 feet by early 2018.
Lake Michigan's Record Low Begins a New Era for Great Lakes? 0713
The red line is Lake Michigan-Huron's average water level since 1918.
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