New Research Shows Changing Winters Will Hit Northern Lakes the Hardest

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In the world’s cold and snowy regions, shorter and warmer winters are one of the most conspicuous consequences of climate change. For freshwater lakes, this means later freezing, earlier thawing, and thinner ice.