Less ice on Great Lakes in winter
China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-25 07:50
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Downtown Cleveland is seen through ice that encased trees along the breakwall near Edgewater Park by Lake Erie's frigid water splashing from the waves crashing into the rocks In this January 2009 picture. AP |
Ice cover on the Great Lakes has declined more than 30 percent since the 1970s, leaving the world's largest system of freshwater lakes open to evaporation and lower water levels, according to scientists associated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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