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The Caspian Sea, Earth’s Largest Lake, Is Shrinking Fast. It May Never Recover. 1024.rtfThe Great Salt Lake Isn’t Just Drying Out. It’s Warming the Planet. 0724.rtfClimate Change Is Drying Up Titicaca, the Biggest Lake in the Andes 0624.rtfHistoric Lack of Great Lakes Ice Leads to Fewer Fish and More Algae 0324.rtfGreat Lakes Start 2024 with Smallest Amount of Ice in at Least 50 Years 0124.rtfClimate Triage Means Some Cold Waters In Warming Great Lakes Won’t Be Saved 1023.rtf5,200+ Dead and 10,000 Missing after Unprecedented Flash Floods in Libya 0923.rtfEarth’s Highest Navigable Lake, Titicaca, Home to 3 Million People, Is Drying Out 0923.rtfShrinking Inland Seas Expose Salty Particulates and More 0623.rtfWarming and Drying Climate Puts Many of the World’s Biggest Lakes in Peril 0523.rtfGreat Salt Lake Still at High Risk of Disappearing, after Epic Snow 0423.rtfCalifornia’s Record Snowpack, Nearly Full Reservoirs after Epic Winter 0323.rtfLargest US Reservoirs Moving in Right Direction - Filling Up 0323.rtf, on average, among Earth's lakes and reservoirsClick for moreArticles
A Great Toxic Dustbowl Could Soon Emerge from the Great Salt Lake 0223.rtfWarming Climate Prompts Harmful Oxygen Loss in Lakes 1222.rtfThe Dead Sea Is Dying 1222.rtfLake Mead at 29% of Capacity, Lake Powell at 24% 1022.rtfThe World’s Biggest Source of Clean Energy Is Evaporating Fast 1022.rtfDrought, Climate Change Are Drying Up North America’s Bodies of Water 1022.rtfBeavers Are Heat Wave Heroes 0722.rtfUtah’s Great Salt Lake Hits New Historic Low, amid Drought in Western US 0722.rtfCalifornia’s Biggest Reservoirs at Critically Low Level, Portending Dry Summer 0622.rtfLake Mead Continues to Shrink before Our Eyes 0622.rtfCalifornia’s 2 Largest Reservoirs Are 'Critically Low' as Dry Season Starts 0522.rtfWest’s Megadrought Delivers Another Blow - Saving Glen Canyon Dam 0522.rtfRecord Low Water Levels Reveal Body in Barrel at Lake Mead 0522.rtfClimate Change Has Destroyed This Once Popular Iraq Lake 0422.rtfLake Powell Officials’ Stark Choice in West's Megadrought - Water or Electricity 0422.rtfLake Mead Hits Unprecedented Low, Exposing an Original Water Intake Valve 0422.rtfDrought Is Sinking Lake Powell's Water Level. Its Total Capacity Is Shrinking Too. 0322.rtfAs Planet Warms, Less Ice Is Covering North American Lakes 0322.rtfIraq’s 2nd Largest Lake Is Drying Up, Turning Up Dead Fish 0222.rtfThe Great Lakes are Higher than They’ve Ever Been 0122.rtfLake Tahoe Water Level Hits 4-Year Low, amid Drought.rtfGreat Salt Lake’s Demise Spurs Water Emergency for Utah 1021.rtf1st-Ever Water Cuts Declared for Colorado River in Historic Drought 0821.rtfLake Powell Hits Record Low Level, in Climate Change-Fueled Water Crisis0721.rtfFast-Shrinking Great Salt Lake Poses Rising Hazards 0721.rtfGreat Salt Lake Drops to Record Low Levels 0721.rtfReservoirs Are Drying Up, as Consequences of the Western Drought Worsen 0721.rtfLakes Are Losing Oxygen—and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger 0621.rtfThe Shocking Numbers behind the Lake Mead Drought Crisis 0621.rtfLake Mead at Hoover Dam to Reach Lowest Water Level since It Filled in 1930s 0621.rtf- 1070 feet above sea level, 162 feet below max fill lineClimate Crisis Is Suffocating the World’s Lakes 0621.rtf - 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.rtfUS Great Lake Levels Set Record Highs 0420.rtfClimate Change Could Trigger Drastic Swings in Great Lakes Water Levels 0819.rtfThis Year’s Wild, Wet Spring Is Feeding Massive Blobs of Toxic Algae 0719.rtfClimate Change Is Driving Rapid Shifts between High and Low Water Levels in the Great Lakes 0619.rtfGreat Lakes Basin Warming Faster than Other Parts of the US 0319.rtfPoor Mixing of Lake Nutrients among Looming Climate Change Impacts 0319.rtfAncient Flood Stalled Ocean Circulation, Plunging Northern Hemisphere into a Millennium of Glacial Conditions 0718.rtf - from glacial lakes covering much of Canada ~ 11,000 years ago (Younger Dryas), drainginto Arctic Ocean via MacKenzie RiverVanishing Dead Sea 0218.rtfSome of the World's Biggest Lakes Are Drying Up. Here's Why. 0218.rtfEcological Catastrophe Turned a Vast Bolivian Lake into a Salt Desert 0118.rtfWhy the Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking 1217.rtfScientists Think They Know Why the Caspian Sea Is Shrinking 0817.rtfCan We Save Our Lakes from Global Warming? 0817.rtfParched Lanzhou, China Plans to Pipe Water 1,000 Km from Russia’s Lake Baikal 0317.rtfDisplaced Refugees Fear More Loss, as Lake Chad Shrinks 1116.rtfDead Sea Is Drying Out 1116.rtfUtah's Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up at Alarming Rate – Satellites 1116.rtfWorld’s Longest Lake Is Being Depleted of Life as Waters Warm 0816.rtfWarming at Alarming Rate, Lake Tahoe Reflects Rapid Sierra Climate Change 0716.rtfLake Mead Declines to Lowest Level in History 0516.rtf - Level rebounded more than 10 feet by early 2018.Saving Iran's Precious Lake Urmia 0416.rtfEl Niño Is Rapidly Filling California's Once-Dusty Reservoirs, Easing Drought 0316.rtfMany of World’s Lakes Are Vanishing. Some May Be Gone Forever. 0316.rtfWill the Great Salt Lake Be Reduced to Dust? 0216.rtfRising Lake Temperatures May Worsen Algae Blooms 1215.rtf - 0.61° per decade in world’s 235 largest lakesGlobally, Lakes Warming at an Alarming Rate 1215.rtf - and up to 1.3°F per decade in northern latitudesGreat Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risk as the Seas 1215.rtfOn Thin Ice - Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed 1115.rtfLake Baikal's Water Levels Drop to Record Low 0115.rtfGreat Lakes Ice Breaking All the Rules 1214.rtfClimate Change Makes It Harder to Save Lake Erie 0914.rtfSouthwest Braces as Lake Mead Water Levels Drop 0814.rtfLake Mead Reservoir Drops to Record Low 0714.rtfAlaska's Arctic Icy Lakes Lose Thickness 0214.rtfWith Great Lakes Stuck at Historic Lows, Talk Turns to Adapting 1013.rtfWarming Lake Superior Prompts a Tribe to Try a New Fish 1013.rtfChanging Clarity Reflects Climate Change at Lake Tahoe 0813.rtfAs Michigan Warms, Cotton Instead of Cherry and Grapes? 0713.rtfLake Michigan's Record Low Begins a New Era for Great Lakes? 0713.rtfCarbon Acidification Could Harm Great Lakes Wildlife 0713.rtfFalling Great Lakes Water Levels Fall Take Toll on Shipping 0613.rtfLakes Mead and Powell May Dry Up within Decades 0213.rtf2 Great Lakes Hit Record Low Water 0213.rtfRecord Low Water in Lake Michigan 0113.rtfWisconsin Lakeshore Communities Struggle with Low Water Levels 1212.rtfReservoir Lake Effect Can Worsen Local Flooding 1212.rtfWarming, Variabiity Drive Near-Record Low Water in Great Lakes 1112.rtfLake Michigan Water at Record Low 1012.rtf
Lake Mead Continues to Shrink before Our Eyes 0622.rtf
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.rtf - Level rebounded more than 10 feet by early 2018.
Lake Michigan's Record Low Begins a New Era for Great Lakes? 0713.rtf
The red line is Lake Michigan-Huron's average water level since 1918.
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