A new study has confirmed what researchers have feared since the breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf in 2020: Canada’s last epishelf lake – a freshwater lake dammed by an ice shelf – has gone.
Drawing on a decade of ocean measurements, satellite images, and field observations collected before and after the breakup, scientists have reconstructed the lake’s disappearance.
The far north of Canada lies in the Arctic Circle and serves as one of the region’s last refuges for…
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