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  • April 2008

    • Melting Empties Chile Lake

      Associated Press  |  Apr 11, 08 3:58 PM CDT

      Melting Empties Chile Lake

      (Newser) - Melting ice in a remote Chilean lake caused it to swell and suddenly empty, creating a “river tsunami,” the AP reports. Water from a melting glacier filled the lake and tunneled through the ice, emptying into a nearby river. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • environment  • Chile  • glacier  • lake

  • December 2007

    • Old Town Resurfaces as Drought Dries Ga. Lake

      Associated Press  |  Dec 24, 07 10:03 PM CST

      Old Town Resurfaces as Drought Dries Ga. Lake

      (Newser) - The brutal drought hitting Georgia is drying up an artificial lake and exposing the long-dead town that lies beneath—along with mountains of trash. "It's horrendous, it's unbelievable," said one local resident. Lake Lanier's receding shores have exposed debris of all shapes and sizes, including an old dirt racing track, foundations of buildings, sunken cars and boats, even a stretch of Georgia Highway 53. More »

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      Georgia  • Atlanta  • water  • drought  • lake

  • August 2007

    • Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

      Wired  |  Aug 28, 07 6:47 PM CDT

      Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

      (Newser) - Two scientists may be fishing cancer cures out of an abandoned, poisonous lake, Wired reports. Don and Andrea Stierle are finding microbes in the green goup of an old Montana pit lake that don’t exist anywhere else – and happen to make compounds that inhibit a lung cancer and an ovarian cancer. So far Big Pharma hasn’t taken enough notice to fund a full investigation of the underwater slime.  More »

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      cancer  • science  • cancer research  • lung cancer  • Montana  • poison  • ovarian cancer  • lake  • microbe  • Butte

    • Great Lake Getting Less Superior

      Reuters  |  Aug 15, 07 4:45 PM CDT

      Great Lake Getting Less Superior

      (Newser) - Water levels in Lake Superior are down a whole foot this year, and scientists say man is to blame. The world's largest body of fresh water by surface area has suffered an on-and-off drought for four years, but levels may reach an all-time low this summer. Climate change is partially responsible, but one environmental group points to another culprit: the constant dredging of the St. Clair River for navigation. More »

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      climate change  • environment  • water  • lake  • erosion  • Great Lakes  • Lake Superior  • fresh water

  • July 2007

    • Darfur Lake Is Dried Up, Draining Hope

      BBC  |  Jul 20, 07 4:41 PM CDT

      Darfur Lake Is Dried Up, Draining Hope

      (Newser) - Hopes for an enormous underground lake discovered recently in Darfur might supply enough water to end starvation and violence in the area were dimmed by a second opinion from  a French geologist. The area receives too little rain and has the wrong type of rocks for water storage, said a specialist in mineral and water exploration: the lake probably dried up thousands of years ago. More »

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      Africa  • Sudan  • Darfur  • Boston  • genocide  • water  • Crisis in Darfur  • lake  • geologist  • Darfuris

    • Darfur Hopes Lie in Hidden Lake

      BBC  |  Jul 18, 07 3:34 PM CDT

      Darfur Hopes Lie in Hidden Lake

      (Newser) - A giant lake discovered beneath Darfur could lead to resolution of the conflict in the region, where genocide has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 Darfuris and 2 million people have been left homeless since 2003, the BBC reports. Radar revealed the ancient body of water, comparable in size to Lake Erie, which could supply 1,000 wells, researchers say. More »

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      climate change  • Sudan  • Darfur  • genocide  • farmer  • water  • lake  • Arabs  • radar  • Lake Erie

    • Missing Lake Mystery Solved

      BBC  |  Jul 5, 07 4:58 AM CDT

      Missing Lake Mystery Solved

      (Newser) - A Chilean lake that mysteriously went missing between March and May was a casualty of global warming, says the lead scientist investigating its disappearance. Melting glaciers created a stream of water that cracked one of the lake's ice walls, sending the water pouring into an adjoining fjord and, eventually, out to sea. More »

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      global warming  • Chile  • disappearance  • glacier  • lake  • Patagonia

  • June 2007

    • Missing: Five-Acre Lake

      CNN  |  Jun 22, 07 4:25 AM CDT

      Missing: Five-Acre Lake

      (Newser) - A 100-foot-deep lake in the Chilean Andes vanished sometime between March and May, and scientists are stumped. The best guess in the case of the missing body of water is that it drained through cracks in the lakebed, but geologists have no idea where those cracks, usually caused by earthquakes, could have come from. More »

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      science  • Chile  • geology  • lake  • Andes

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