Mongabay on Mythryl: “When ice sheets melt, unique freshwater habitats vanish. With all 17…”

When ice sheets melt, unique freshwater habitats vanish. With all 17 epishelf lakes along Canada’s Ellesmere Island now gone, scientists warn that rapid Arctic warming is dismantling the planet's fridge and threatening the Arctic's most climate-resilient ice ecosystems. Ruth Kamnitzer reports.

mongabay.ccLoss of a rare lake reveals how warming has hit the Canadian Arctic’s ‘planetary fridge’When an ice shelf blocks a polar fjord, it sparks the creation of an ecosystem like no other: the epishelf lake. Meltwater pools up behind the ice shelf, floating above the denser seawater, with both…

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