Soda Lakes: The Missing Link in the Origin of Life?
Charles Darwin suggested the possibility of life originating in a “warm little pond” with a suitable mix of chemicals and energy. New research conducted by…
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Slowly Vanishing – Over 50% of the World’s Largest Lakes Are Losing Water
The decline is being driven by a combination of factors, including climate change, excessive human consumption, and sedimentation. A revolutionary evaluation recently published in the…
No Evidence – New Study Challenges Accepted Limnology Theory
Research conducted by the UFZ and Aarhus University provides new insights that challenge the prevailing theory on the ecology of shallow lakes. According to the…
Climate Change Is Turning Lakes Brown
As global temperatures increase, blue lakes in North America and Europe are projected to become green-brown. According to recent research that provides the first global…
An “Environmental Catastrophe” – Why Is the Salton Sea Turning Into Toxic Dust?
A new study has identified the cause of the lake’s water loss. In the last 25 years, the Salton Sea, California’s most polluted inland lake, has…
What Caused the World’s Fourth-Largest Proglacial Lake To Suddenly Drain? Scientists Finally Have an Answer
The massive proglacial lake drainage in remote Patagonia was captured by satellites. Only satellites were around when the fourth-largest proglacial lake in the world suddenly drained in…
Scientists Warn: A Vicious Cycle of Oxygen Loss Threatens Water Quality in Lakes
Scientists have recently confirmed that the world’s lakes are rapidly losing oxygen. With a seven-year, whole-ecosystem study, a team of freshwater scientists at Virginia Tech…
Million-Year-Old Arctic Sedimentary Record Sheds Light on Climate Mystery That Has Puzzled Scientists
Oldest continuous arctic record is a step toward understanding dramatic shift in glacial cycles. New research is the first to provide a continuous look at…
Old Contaminants Decline in the Great Lakes While Newer Ones Rise
The concentrations of legacy contaminants are decreasing quicker than previously reported in three of the Great Lakes, but stayed virtually the same in two other…
Sediments Suggest Lake Geneva Was Devastated by an Ancient Tsunami
Over a century after the Romans gave up control of what’s today Geneva, Switzerland, in 563 A.D., a deadly tsunami on Lake Geneva poured over…
Prehistoric Fossilized Eocene Epoch Turtles Died Locked In Coitus
These extraordinary 47-million-year-old fossils depict prehistoric turtles reproducing. The study was led by Walter Joyce, of the University of Tübingen in Germany, and published in…
Cassini Detects Methane Lakes on Titan
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
Cassini Explores Titan’s Lake, Similarities to Etosha Salt Pan
Based on data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a newly published research paper suggests that Lake Ontario Lacus on Saturn’s moon Titan is very similar to…
Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan Seen in Unprecedented Detail
As one of the coldest places in the solar system, Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is also one of the most dynamic. A new collection of…
Russians Celebrate Drilling into Lake Vostok, Biggest Antarctic Subglacial Lake
It took two chilling decades, but the Russian team has finally broken into Lake Vostok, the largest of the lakes hidden under Antarctica’s ice, and…
After 20 Years, Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Lake Vostok
A team of Russian researchers is close to breaching Lake Vostok, a prehistoric lake that’s been trapped deep beneath the Antarctic surface for the last…