Adirondack lakes' warming is top Chronicle story of 2024
December 17, 2024
December 17, 2024
ITHACA, New York, Dec. 17 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Like the canary in the coal mine, lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York are harbingers of peril.
Lake "browning" when dissolved organic matter from forests turns water the color of tea combined with a warming climate is making the bottoms of many lakes in the Adirondacks inhospitable in summer for cold-water fish such as trout, salmon and whitefish, according to a Jan. . . .
Like the canary in the coal mine, lakes in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York are harbingers of peril.
Lake "browning" when dissolved organic matter from forests turns water the color of tea combined with a warming climate is making the bottoms of many lakes in the Adirondacks inhospitable in summer for cold-water fish such as trout, salmon and whitefish, according to a Jan. . . .