Sunday, April 15, 2018
One-degree rise in temperature causes ripple effect in world’s largest High Arctic lake
A 1 C increase in temperature has set off a chain of events disrupting the entire ecology of the world’s largest High Arctic lake.
“The amount of glacial meltwater going into the lake has dramatically increased,” said Martin Sharp, a University of Alberta glaciologist who was part of a team of scientists that documented the rapid changes in Lake Hazen on Ellesmere Island over a series of warm summers in the last decade....
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