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Article: Disappearing lakes, shrinking seas.(Ecology)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Mono Lake, North America's oldest, dating back some 760,000 years, is an important feeding stop for a variety of migrating birds, especially as Southern California has lost over 90% of its wetlands. Since the first diversions of its tributaries to quench the thirst of growing Los Angeles in 1941, the lake has contracted dramatically, with water levels dropping by 34 feet and volume down 40%. As a result, its salinity has jumped to three times that of the ocean--far too salty to sustain most fish, reports Janet Larsen, research associate for Earth Policy Institute, Washington, D.C. The lake likely would have died completely had locals not intervened and defeated the city in ...
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