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Lakes worldwide feel the heat from climate change

Warming waters are disrupting freshwater fishing and recreation

Lake Huron

HOT WATER   Oceans aren’t the only bodies of water affected by climate change. Lake Huron (shown) and many lakes worldwide could experience ecological, recreational and economic impacts from warming.

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By Alexandra Witze

- More than 2 years ago

About 40 kilometers off Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, in the waters of Lake Superior, rises the stone lighthouse of Stannard Rock.