Lakes

A Great Toxic Dustbowl Could Soon Emerge from the Great Salt Lake 0223.rtf

Warming Climate Prompts Harmful Oxygen Loss in Lakes 1222.rtf

The Dead Sea Is Dying 1222.rtf

Lake Mead at 29% of Capacity, Lake Powell at 24% 1022.rtf

The World’s Biggest Source of Clean Energy Is Evaporating Fast 1022.rtf

Drought, Climate Change Are Drying Up North America’s Bodies of Water 1022.rtf

Beavers Are Heat Wave Heroes 0722.rtf

Utah’s Great Salt Lake Hits New Historic Low, amid Drought in Western US 0722.rtf

California’s Biggest Reservoirs at Critically Low Level, Portending Dry Summer 0622.rtf

Lake Mead Continues to Shrink before Our Eyes 0622.rtf

California’s 2 Largest Reservoirs Are 'Critically Low' as Dry Season Starts 0522.rtf

West’s Megadrought Delivers Another Blow - Saving Glen Canyon Dam 0522.rtf

Record Low Water Levels Reveal Body in Barrel at Lake Mead 0522.rtf

Climate Change Has Destroyed This Once Popular Iraq Lake 0422.rtf

Lake Powell Officials’ Stark Choice in West's Megadrought - Water or Electricity 0422.rtf

Lake Mead Hits Unprecedented Low, Exposing an Original Water Intake Valve 0422.rtf

Drought Is Sinking Lake Powell's Water Level. Its Total Capacity Is Shrinking Too. 0322.rtf

As Planet Warms, Less Ice Is Covering North American Lakes 0322.rtf

Iraq’s 2nd Largest Lake Is Drying Up, Turning Up Dead Fish 0222.rtf

The Great Lakes are Higher than They’ve Ever Been 0122.rtf

Lake Tahoe Water Level Hits 4-Year Low, amid Drought.rtf

Great Salt Lake’s Demise Spurs Water Emergency for Utah 1021.rtf

1st-Ever Water Cuts Declared for Colorado River in Historic Drought 0821.rtf

Lake Powell Hits Record Low Level, in Climate Change-Fueled Water Crisis0721.rtf

Fast-Shrinking Great Salt Lake Poses Rising Hazards 0721.rtf

Great Salt Lake Drops to Record Low Levels 0721.rtf

Reservoirs Are Drying Up, as Consequences of the Western Drought Worsen 0721.rtf

Lakes Are Losing Oxygen—and Their Inhabitants Are in Danger 0621.rtf

The Shocking Numbers behind the Lake Mead Drought Crisis 0621.rtf

Lake 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 line

Climate 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.rtf

US Great Lake Levels Set Record Highs 0420.rtf

Climate Change Could Trigger Drastic Swings in Great Lakes Water Levels 0819.rtf

This Year’s Wild, Wet Spring Is Feeding Massive Blobs of Toxic Algae 0719.rtf

Climate Change Is Driving Rapid Shifts between High and Low Water Levels in the Great Lakes 0619.rtf

Great Lakes Basin Warming Faster than Other Parts of the US 0319.rtf

Poor Mixing of Lake Nutrients among Looming Climate Change Impacts 0319.rtf

Ancient 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 River

Vanishing Dead Sea 0218.rtf

Some of the World's Biggest Lakes Are Drying Up. Here's Why. 0218.rtf

Ecological Catastrophe Turned a Vast Bolivian Lake into a Salt Desert 0118.rtf

Why the Great Salt Lake Is Shrinking 1217.rtf

Scientists Think They Know Why the Caspian Sea Is Shrinking 0817.rtf

Can We Save Our Lakes from Global Warming? 0817.rtf

Parched Lanzhou, China Plans to Pipe Water 1,000 Km from Russia’s Lake Baikal 0317.rtf

Displaced Refugees Fear More Loss, as Lake Chad Shrinks 1116.rtf

Dead Sea Is Drying Out 1116.rtf

Utah's Great Salt Lake Is Drying Up at Alarming Rate – Satellites 1116.rtf

World’s Longest Lake Is Being Depleted of Life as Waters Warm 0816.rtf

Warming at Alarming Rate, Lake Tahoe Reflects Rapid Sierra Climate Change 0716.rtf

Lake 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.rtf

El Niño Is Rapidly Filling California's Once-Dusty Reservoirs, Easing Drought 0316.rtf

Many of World’s Lakes Are Vanishing. Some May Be Gone Forever. 0316.rtf

Will the Great Salt Lake Be Reduced to Dust? 0216.rtf

Rising Lake Temperatures May Worsen Algae Blooms 1215.rtf - 0.61° per decade in world’s 235 largest lakes

Globally, Lakes Warming at an Alarming Rate 1215.rtf - and up to 1.3°F per decade in northern latitudes

Great Lakes Could Face Similar Acidification Risk as the Seas 1215.rtf

On Thin Ice - Big Northern Lakes Are Being Rapidly Transformed 1115.rtf

Lake Baikal's Water Levels Drop to Record Low 0115.rtf

Great Lakes Ice Breaking All the Rules 1214.rtf

Climate Change Makes It Harder to Save Lake Erie 0914.rtf

Southwest Braces as Lake Mead Water Levels Drop 0814.rtf

Lake Mead Reservoir Drops to Record Low 0714.rtf

Alaska's Arctic Icy Lakes Lose Thickness 0214.rtf

With Great Lakes Stuck at Historic Lows, Talk Turns to Adapting 1013.rtf

Warming Lake Superior Prompts a Tribe to Try a New Fish 1013.rtf

Changing Clarity Reflects Climate Change at Lake Tahoe 0813.rtf

As Michigan Warms, Cotton Instead of Cherry and Grapes? 0713.rtf

Lake Michigan's Record Low Begins a New Era for Great Lakes? 0713.rtf

Carbon Acidification Could Harm Great Lakes Wildlife 0713.rtf

Falling Great Lakes Water Levels Fall Take Toll on Shipping 0613.rtf

Lakes Mead and Powell May Dry Up within Decades 0213.rtf

2 Great Lakes Hit Record Low Water 0213.rtf

Record Low Water in Lake Michigan 0113.rtf

Wisconsin Lakeshore Communities Struggle with Low Water Levels 1212.rtf

Reservoir Lake Effect Can Worsen Local Flooding 1212.rtf

Warming, Variabiity Drive Near-Record Low Water in Great Lakes 1112.rtf

Lake Michigan Water at Record Low 1012.rtf