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The world’s largest lakes are shrinking dramatically, and scientists say they have figured out why
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMore than half of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs have lost significant amounts of water...
Space photos show over 1 trillion gallons of water flooding crop fields in California, and it could...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoFlooded farm crops in Tulare Lake on June 6, 2023.Citizens of the Planet / Contributor Tulare Lake...
Epic snow from all those atmospheric rivers in the West is starting to melt, and the flood danger is...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTulare Lake is reemerging as flood water spreads across miles of California farmland. Luis Sinco /...
Lake Tahoe has higher concentration of microplastics than ocean trash heap
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoResearchers found a startling amount of microplastics in Lake Tahoe. "Its beauty kind of hides the...
Scientists make worrying discovery while investigating Lake Tahoe: ‘There’s a lot of education we...
The Cool Down via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe first study of large pieces of plastic waste in Lake Tahoe produced disconcerting results....
2022 was the year of drought
NBC News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIt was a year characterized by extreme drought. From North America to Africa to Europe to Asia, huge swaths of the planet were parched in 2022. Lakes and...
Smith: Lake Michigan chinook salmon fishing as hot as the weather
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoSHEBOYGAN - The July 8 pre-dawn conditions in the Sheboygan harbor were conducive to a clandestine...
First atmospheric river storm of the season targets California next week
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA major pattern change is set to deliver California’s first atmospheric river of the season next...
Harmful ‘forever chemicals’ found in freshwater fish, yet most states don’t warn residents
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBill Eisenman has always fished. “Growing up, we ate whatever we caught — catfish, carp, freshwater drum,” he said. “That was the only real source of fish in our diet as a family, and we ate ...
Editorial: Restore California's floodplains to capture more stormwater, protect human life
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLetting excess stormwater inundate carefully managed low-lying areas would be good for California's...