Global warming is melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, but for millions of people, ice is vanishing closer to home as lakes lose their winter cover. In a study published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists for the first time quantified the effects of rising temperatures on ice cover across 1.4 million lakes in the Northern Hemisphere. Without winter ice, lakes begin warming earlier in the year. Humans rely on lake ice, too. It isn’t going to be like we have ice, ice, ice, ice and then bang!

Source: New York Times February 05, 2019 10:00 UTC