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#lake

Halloween Science: Spooky Lakes and Haunting HydrologyArtist and lake enthusiast Geo Rutherford studies inland water systems. She's been hosting Spooky Lake Month at her TikTok channel all through the month of October, with plenty of tales of weird waterways. Rutherford did it last year as well, and this is the most popular video of the series.

Don't Release Pet Goldfish into Lakes: "They Grow Bigger Than You Think" and Threaten the EcosystemOfficials of the city of Burnsville, south of Minneapolis in Minnesota, implored the public not to release their pet goldfish into ponds and lakes."They grow bigger than you think and contribute to poor water quality by mucking up bottom sediments and uprooting plants," the officials tweeted on Jul 9, 2021. They also added a few photos of giant goldfish that were recently caught in Keller Lake.According to Daryl Jacobson, natural resource manager for the city of Burnsville, people thought that the small goldfish in a home aquarium would remain that size in a lake. But they tend to match their environment and could grow much larger. "They are a tough species. They can survive under ice, with low oxygen and in unclear water," he added in an interview with USA Today.By the way, the largest goldfish caught in the wild was a 9 lb (4 kg) goldfish caught in South Carolina in 2020.#lake #goldfish #fish #ecosystem #invasivespecies

Huge Antarctic Lake Disappeared in Just 3 Days, Dumped 26 Billion Cubic Feet of Water Into the OceanIt took only 3 days for a huge lake in the Antarctic to disappear! In June 2019, the ice shelf beneath the lake collapsed, sending an estimated 21 to 26 billion cubic feet (736 million cubic meter) of water into the ocean.Glaciologist Roland Warner of the University of Tasmania was monitoring the wildfires in Australia when he decided to take a look at satellite imagery to the south. "Looking down to Antarctica, for a break from watching the destruction, I noticed a spell of several clear days on Amery Ice Shelf and decided to see how the summer surface melt season was progressing," he tells Vice. "The collapsed surface feature caught my eye."Just to give you an idea of the scale, 21 to 26 billion cubic feet of water is twice the volume of the San Diego Bay, or is about 295,000 Olympic size swimming pool!#Antarctica #iceshelf #satelliteimagery #ocean #lake #ClimateChangeImage: Geophysical Research Letters