Tag: lakes

Birds nested alongside dinosaurs in the Arctic: Fossil find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years

PALEONTOLOGY
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the cover of Science....

How Greenland’s glacial troughs influence ocean circulation

EARTH
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) serves as the Atlantic Ocean's conveyor belt, transporting warm water north toward the Arctic Circle and returning cold, dense water back to the tropics. Nearshore areas off Greenland are critical...

Signatures of ice-free ancient ponds and lakes found on Mars

MARS
Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved in the rock record. Wave ripples...

Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes, study shows

OCEANOGRAPHY
When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice shelves, weighing them down and...

Lakes collapse and release meltwater during winter causing inland ice to speed up in Greenland

ENVIRONMENT
A team of international researchers has shown for the first time how 18 meltwater lakes in Greenland collapse during winter, which causes the edges...

Cameroon’s ‘exploding lakes’: Disaster expert warns deadly gas release could cause another tragedy

ENVIRONMENT
A sudden change on 29 August 2022 in the color and smell of Lake Kuk, in north-west Cameroon, has caused anxiety and panic among...

Arctic lakes are vanishing in surprise climate finding

ENVIRONMENT
The Arctic is no stranger to loss. As the region warms nearly four times faster than the rest of the world, glaciers collapse, wildlife...

Earth’s lakes emit less methane than previously thought

EARTH
Methane is well known as a potent greenhouse gas that is emitted into the atmosphere by human activity and contributes significantly to global warming. Methane...

Team reassesses greenhouse gas emissions from African lakes

EARTH
The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4)—the most potent greenhouse gases—into the atmosphere from African lakes are reassessed in a study undertaken...

Great Lakes levels are likely to see continued rise in next three decades

ENVIRONMENT
The Great Lakes in the Midwest U.S. comprise the largest unfrozen freshwater stores on Earth. But too much of a good thing can create...

Warmer summers and meltwater lakes are threatening the fringes of the world’s largest ice sheet

OCEANOGRAPHY
A first-of-its-kind study looking at surface meltwater lakes around the East Antarctic Ice Sheet across a seven-year period has found that the area and...

Recent articles

spot_img

© Geology Science 2021