Loss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’

Mongabay · article

When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floating above the denser seawater, with both freshwater and marine species found in distinct layers within the same water column. But Canada’s la

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