Researchers even found textile fibres in very remote lakes with limited human presence.
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The tiny organisms that cause harmful blooms of algae can have a big impact on your trip to the shore. A toxicologist explains what causes these events and how to keep people and pets safe.
Although it has been considerably less studied than other environmental problems, salinization presents major challenges for biodiversity in freshwater and coastal areas.
Ensuring a swimming site is safe is key to getting people using it. That means giving people timely information about water quality.
Windermere has seen extensive algal blooms, attracting attention over its ecological consequences. But this is nothing new.
Rising concern about possible environmental damage from the active ingredients in sunscreens could have ripple effects on public health if it causes people to use less of them.
Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading them into the southern and western US.
Thanks to their high concentrations of phytoplankton, African lakes emit less CO2 than their boreal counterparts, with important consequences for climate modelling.
Melting lakes on ice shelves can widen cracks within them - new research shows how these lakes change across the world’s largest sheet.
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Some lakes in the DRC should be thought of as rebellious landscapes having their own social, political and cultural dynamics.
Lakes in the northern hemisphere are rapidly losing their ice cover due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. The only way to preserve lake ice is to limit GHG emissions and slow down climate change.
Increased motorboat activity has resulted in an alarming increase in turtle injuries. Northern map turtles are an at-risk species, and boat collisions threaten their survival.
As environmental engineers, invasive caterpillars can have remarkable effects on water quality and soil conditions. But from a climate perspective they’re pretty much a nuisance.
Studies of Lake Windermere show how organisms moving in lakes help keep water layers fresh and reduce greenhouse gas production.
The growing frequency of climate extremes affected human health and caused wide-scale damages to the ecosystems that people depend upon, including agriculture, fisheries and freshwater.
The lives of one in ten of Earth’s species are connected to lakes and their tributaries.
The Supreme Court recently dealt defeat to Florida in its 20-year legal battle with Georgia over river water. Other interstate water contests loom, but there are no sure winners in these lawsuits.
Earth’s floating solar power capacity has grown one-hundredfold in the last five years.
It’s an ecological disaster, but my research shows we should not lose hope.
Because the forecast for rainfall in the Rift Valley basin is a rising trend, the lake levels look set to rise even more in the future.
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Beatrix Beisner is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor, Aquatic ecology; Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Reader and NERC Independent Research Fellow, Bangor University
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Canada Research Professor, Conservation Physiology, Carleton University
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Professeur Écologie Aquatique, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
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Instructor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Carleton University
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Professor of Biology, McGill University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Environmental Change, UCL
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Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology; Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Global Water Academy, York University, Canada
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Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor and Canada Research Chair, Trent University; University of Cambridge
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Professeure agrégée, Sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Research Fellow in Freshwater Science, Edith Cowan University
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Professor, Environmental Geochemistry, University of Waterloo