Winter ice on lakes is rapidly disappearing

Just as sea ice and glaciers are melting, the frozen sheet covering the lake is also disappearing. Lake ice loss has accelerated over the past 25 years, with lakes in the Northern Hemisphere melting an average of 45 days earlier than they did 100 years ago.

“Ice loss in freshwater systems has social, environmental and economic impacts,” he says. Stephanie Hampton from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC.

Scientists have only recently…