GLOBAL WARMING DRYING UP ARCTIC PONDS WARN CANADIAN SCIENTISTS
August 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
GLOBAL warming is drying up ponds in the Canadian high Arctic, seasonal homes to aquatic wildlife for millennia.
Scientists Dr John Smol from Queen's University, Ontario, and Dr Marianne Douglas, from the University of Alberta have monitored summer water levels of 40 ponds on Cape Herschel, east-central Ellesmere Island since 1983.
Cape Herschel Lagoon then 160-by-35 metres, one-metre-deep became a puddle of 23-by-11 metres, 10-centimetres-deep in 2006. Worse, similarly-sized Cape Pond and Beach Ridge Pond dried up.
Dr Smol said ...
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