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According to a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the influence of human-induced climate change is evident in the fact that lake-water temperatures are rising in the fact that lake ice-cover forms later and melts sooner. At the beginning of the project, the authors observed changes in lakes around the world based on satellite-derived observations from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative lakes project – as depicted in this image of Lake Ontario from 31 August 2019.
Read full story: Humans to blame for warming lakes