We conducted field experiments in the nearshore area of two urban lakes (Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish) in western Washington to test the attractive quality of artificial nighttime lighting to subyearling salmonids Oncorhynchus spp. In both lakes, experimental trials were conducted along a ...
In the south, the great Colorado plateau is without mountain barriers or local basins, and thers are few traces of extinct lakes. This arid district was once a beautiful and fertile plain, drained by the Colorado, which, on the western margin poured over a precipice five thousand feet or ...
Lake Chicago, in what is now the southern Lake Michigan basin, and Lake Maumee, in present-day western Lake Erie and its adjacent lowlands, originally drained southward into the Mississippi River through the Illinois and Wabash drainages, respectively. As the ice retreat continued, Lake Maumee ...
The Great Lakes helped make the U.S. an economic powerhouse. Now climate change, pollution, and invasive species threaten their complex ecosystems.
Lake Chelan, near Buckner's homestead in the Cascade Mountains, Washington. Another glacial lake, Washington's Lake Chelan was shaped by one ice sheet moving down from the northwest as a second ice sheet moved up from the southeast. “These two tongues of ice met somewhere in the middle,”...
The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world. It lies in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and has a substantial impact upon the local climate, particularly through lake-effect snow. It is a ...
Aral Sea has the shape of a heart in the northern tip of the western half of the Large Aral Sea. Unfortunately, its beautiful shape is due to the shrinking of the sea, which is considered “one of the planet’s worst environmental disasters. ...
Ancient Lakes of Columbia Valley is an AVA in the north of Washington's sizable Columbia Valley AVA. Created in 2012, it is one of the state's newest AVAs, despite having a history of grape-growing that dates back to the 1980s. Noted varieties produced i
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It’s located in the southern reaches of the Western Rift Valley, where it is fed by several rivers. These include the Kalambo, which has one of theworld’s bigest waterfalls, Kalambo Falls (over 700 feet high). The Lukuga River is the lake’s outlet. ...