Climate Change Could Leave Thousands of Lakes Ice-Free
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/05/climate/melting-lake-ice-global-warming.html
Source: By Nadja Popovich, The New York Times.
Excerpt: Global warming is melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, but for millions of people, ice is vanishing closer to home as lakes lose their winter cover. In a study [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0393-5.epdf] published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists for the first time quantified the effects of rising temperatures on ice cover across 1.4 million lakes in the Northern Hemisphere. They found that, from Wisconsin to Japan, thousands of lakes that used to freeze reliably every winter already see some years without ice, and that “an extensive loss of lake ice will occur within the next generation.” The vanishing ice will affect cold-water ecosystems and be felt by millions of people who live near northern lakes, the study said....
Source: By Nadja Popovich, The New York Times.
Excerpt: Global warming is melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, but for millions of people, ice is vanishing closer to home as lakes lose their winter cover. In a study [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0393-5.epdf] published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists for the first time quantified the effects of rising temperatures on ice cover across 1.4 million lakes in the Northern Hemisphere. They found that, from Wisconsin to Japan, thousands of lakes that used to freeze reliably every winter already see some years without ice, and that “an extensive loss of lake ice will occur within the next generation.” The vanishing ice will affect cold-water ecosystems and be felt by millions of people who live near northern lakes, the study said....