Happy New Year! We here at the CFL hope you had a fantastic holiday season and are rested and recharged for 2017. We’re excited to see what the year will bring but, before we start …
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Lake Tanganyika Fisheries Declining from Global Warming
by Mari N. Jensen and Adam Hinterthuer FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The decrease in fishery productivity in Africa’s largest lake is a consequence of global warming rather than just overfishing, according to a report to …
Guest Post: Earth’s Current Sea Change a Warning to “Respect the Slow”
by Steve Carpenter Around the Baltic Sea in Sweden there are dozens of abandoned Viking settlements. The odd thing about these sites is that they lie a few kilometers inland. The Vikings were seafaring people, …
Ice Data from Early “Citizen Scientists” Confirms Warming Since Industrial Revolution
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MADISON, WI — In 1442, fifty years before Columbus “sailed the ocean blue,” Shinto priests in Japan began keeping records of the annual freeze dates of a nearby lake. Along a Finnish …
From Supporting Actor to Star: Will Ecology Take the Lead Role in Future Climate Conferences?
by Steve Carpenter If climate change was the star of the recently concluded Paris Climate Conference (COP21), ecology played a key supporting role. At COP21, 195 nations agreed to hold global warming below 2 degrees …
Science on Tap: Jonathan Patz to Discuss Climate Change and Global Health
MINOCQUA, WI – On Wednesday, October 7th at 6:30pm, guests at the Minocqua Brewing Company will be able to raise a pint and raise their hands to ask a Nobel Prize-winning scientist about one of the …
Fish Fry Day: Fish Move as Oceans Warm
It’s Fish Fry Day, when Wisconsin puts fish on the menu and we serve up some delectable fish facts on our blog. Today we want to point you toward a Q&A with a National Oceanic and …
When Will Lake Mendota Freeze?
Last week, John Magnuson, director emeritus of the Center for Limnology, spoke at our weekly Wednesday seminar about lake ice trends in our warming world. In short, the onset and duration of lake ice cover …
The Present and Potential Future of the Yahara Lakes
A recent spate of stories has folks in Madison talking about their lakes. The charge of limnological news is being led by The Cap Times and their reporter, Jessica VanEgeren, and Wisconsin Center for Investigative …
A Word About This Winter: Trends and Variability
Sure it’s been a long winter, but we were surprised when all that lake ice recently got political here in Wisconsin. In January, State representative Mark Pocan told the legislature that, “Ice fishermen are already noticing …