> … Lake Superior is one of the fastest-warming lakes on the planet. In the past 150 years, Lake Superior has lost more than two months of ice cover. During the winter of 2024, only 12 per cent of Lake Superior’s surface was covered in ice, one-fifth of a typical winter.
> Less ice cover has led to a longer open-water season, resulting in warmer water temperatures and less oxygen during the summer.
>Climate change is causing algal blooms in Lake Superior for the first time in history
Also, corn and college drinking causes cancer in Iowa.
Good opening paragraph – from the article:
>Lake Superior is known for its pristine waters, but a combination of nutrient additions from increasing human activity (including farming and development), warming temperatures and stormy conditions have resulted in more frequent blooms of potentially harmful algae.
>December, 2020
>The commission is an independent bi-national organization that evaluates work by the U.S. and Canada to protect and restore the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. First signed in 1972, the agreement serves as a framework for identifying priorities and actions to improve water quality.
>The 2020 Second Triennial Assessment of Progress Report calls on the U.S. and Canada to identify the amount of nutrient runoff entering Lake Superior and dynamics that play a role in the formation of blue-green algae blooms, also known as cyanobacteria. Such blooms can be toxic to humans and animals.
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Cascading effects of climate change
> … Lake Superior is one of the fastest-warming lakes on the planet. In the past 150 years, Lake Superior has lost more than two months of ice cover. During the winter of 2024, only 12 per cent of Lake Superior’s surface was covered in ice, one-fifth of a typical winter.
> Less ice cover has led to a longer open-water season, resulting in warmer water temperatures and less oxygen during the summer.
>Climate change is causing algal blooms in Lake Superior for the first time in history
Also, corn and college drinking causes cancer in Iowa.
Good opening paragraph – from the article:
>Lake Superior is known for its pristine waters, but a combination of nutrient additions from increasing human activity (including farming and development), warming temperatures and stormy conditions have resulted in more frequent blooms of potentially harmful algae.
>December, 2020
>The commission is an independent bi-national organization that evaluates work by the U.S. and Canada to protect and restore the Great Lakes under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. First signed in 1972, the agreement serves as a framework for identifying priorities and actions to improve water quality.
>The 2020 Second Triennial Assessment of Progress Report calls on the U.S. and Canada to identify the amount of nutrient runoff entering Lake Superior and dynamics that play a role in the formation of blue-green algae blooms, also known as cyanobacteria. Such blooms can be toxic to humans and animals.
>[https://www.wpr.org/environment/report-urges-us-and-canada-eliminate-blue-green-algae-blooms-lake-superior](https://www.wpr.org/environment/report-urges-us-and-canada-eliminate-blue-green-algae-blooms-lake-superior)
*in *recorded* history