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lake stories: 9 news summaries

(AP) - New images suggest Mars had a sizable lake on its surface billions of years ago, further evidence that the planet had a watery past. Images snapped by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal a 30-mile-long canyon where water once flowed and beach remnants surrounding a basin. Dubbed the Shalbatana lake for... More »

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space exploration • water • Mars • lake • satellite images • outer space • Lake Champlain • Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter • satellite photograph • Gaetano Di Achille • Jim Bell • Shalbatana lake

 Melting Empties Chile Lake 

Initial swelling causes 'river tsunami'; global warming blamed

Apr 11, 08 3:58 PM CDT
(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 • environment • global warming • Chile • lake • glacier

Old Town Resurfaces as Drought Dries Ga. Lake

Cars, boats, and building scraps found under evaporating Lake Lenier

Dec 24, 07 10:03 PM CST
(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... More »

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Atlanta • drought • water • Georgia • lake • Lake Lenier • Buford Dam

Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

Scientists fish new microbes out of a toxic soup that kills

Aug 28, 07 6:47 PM CDT
(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... More »

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cancer • lung cancer • science • Montana • ovarian cancer • cancer research • poison • lake • Don Stierle • Andrea Stierle • microbe • Butte

Great Lake Getting Less Superior

Aug 15, 07 4:45 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Darfur Lake Is Dried Up, Draining Hope

Huge underground lake, a hope for peace, emptied 5K years ago

Jul 20, 07 4:41 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Darfur Hopes Lie in Hidden Lake

A hidden lake could spur 1,000 wells and quell deadly competition over resources in Darfur

Jul 18, 07 3:34 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

Missing Lake Mystery Solved

A crack in the ice wall's to blame, scientists say

Jul 5, 07 4:58 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Missing: Five-Acre Lake

Glacial lake in the Andes was there in March, gone in May

Jun 22, 07 4:25 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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science • Chile • Andes • geology • lake

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