Limnology

Limnology

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  Report predicts ever-bigger Lake Erie algae blooms

  It was the largest algae bloom in Lake Erie's recorded history — a scummy, toxic blob that oozed across nearly one-fifth of the lake's surface during ... 

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  Mysterious bacterium found in Antarctic lake

  A new form of microbial life has been found in water samples taken from a giant freshwater lake hidden under kilometers of Antarctic ice, Russian ... 

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  Study: Fish in drug-tainted water suffer reaction

  What happens to fish that swim in waters tainted by traces of drugs that people take? When it's an anti-anxiety drug, they become hyper, anti-social ... 

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  Rare San Francisco river otter stumps researchers

  A rapt crowd followed a trail of bubbles that zipped over the surface of a seaside pond in the ruins of a 19th century bath in San Francisco. 

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  Colorado River seen as depleting regional resource

  The federal government isn't going to tap the Missouri River to slake the thirst of a drought-parched Southwest, the government's top water official ...