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Associated Press: Some of the world’s biggest temperature jumps are happening in lakes — suggesting that problems such as algae blooms and low-oxygen zones hazardous to fish will get worse, a new report says. An analysis of 235 lakes that together hold more than half of the Earth’s fresh surface water found they have been warming an average of 0.61 degrees per decade, the report said. While seemingly insignificant, the increase is bigger than changes recorded in the oceans or the atmosphere. Such rapid swings can......
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Rising lake temperatures may worsen algae blooms
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on December 22nd, 2015
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