How The Climate Crisis Is Changing The World’s Largest Lakes – IFLScience

The 11 largest lakes on the planet hold more than 50 percent of the surface freshwater that millions of people and many more living organisms require to survive. A new study highlights how these lakes absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and how their ability to do so has changed over the last two decades.
The study used a combination of satellite observation and fieldwork to establish a key factor in the role of lakes as carbon sinks, places where carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere….

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