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Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes

  • Written by Drew Gronewold, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
Waves on Lake Superior crash against the Duluth, Minn. waterfront Sept. 10, 2014.Randen Pederson, CC BY

The North American Great Lakes contain about one-fifth of the world’s surface fresh water. In May, new high water level records were set on Lakes Erie and Superior, and there has been widespread flooding across Lake Ontario for the second...

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