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Full-scale evaluation of methane production under oxic conditions in a mesotrophic lake

The contribution of methane (CH4) produced in oxic freshwaters to the global atmospheric CH4 budget is poorly constrained. Here, using a mass balance and in-situ incubations, the authors show that significant CH4 emissions are supported by CH4 produced in the oxic surface mixed layer in Lake Hallwil.

D. Donis
S. Flury
D. F. McGinnis
ResearchOpen Access21 Nov 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-12
Degassing Lake Nyos

HUGH FLETCHER
Research20 Feb 1992
Nature

Volume: 355, P: 683
Conclusions from Lake Nyos disaster

S. J. FREETH
G. W. KLING
K. TIETZE
Research15 Nov 1990
Nature

Volume: 348, P: 201
Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500

Lake Tanganyika has become warmer, increasingly stratified and less productive over the past 90 years. Analyses of lake sediments show that this recent warming is unprecedented within the past 1,500 years.

Jessica E. Tierney
Marc T. Mayes
James M. Russell
Research16 May 2010
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 3, P: 422-425
Hydrothermal vents in Lake Baikal

KATHLEEN CRANE
BARBARA HECKER
VLADIMIR GOLUBEV
Research28 Mar 1991
Nature

Volume: 350, P: 281
Climate-change effect on Lake Tanganyika? (reply)

C. M. O'Reilly
P. -D. Plisnier
S. R. Alin
Research14 Jul 2004
Nature

Volume: 430, P: 1-2
An interval of high salinity in ancient Gale crater lake on Mars

Brines from evaporation of a lake in Gale crater on Mars are inferred from bulk enrichments of Ca- and Mg-sulfates in Hesperian sedimentary rocks, identified by geochemical analyses and observations by NASA’s rover Curiosity.

W. Rapin
B. L. Ehlmann
A. R. Vasavada
Research07 Oct 2019
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 12, P: 889-895
Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity

DNA from macrobial taxa can be extracted from environmental samples, including water, and be used to assess biodiversity in the region. Here, Bista and colleagues show that temporal shifts in the biodiversity of a lake invertebrate community can be detected by analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA).

Iliana Bista
Gary R. Carvalho
Simon Creer
ResearchOpen Access18 Jan 2017
Nature Communications

Volume: 8, P: 1-11
Methane bursts as a trigger for intermittent lake-forming climates on post-Noachian Mars

Bursts of methane stored in the Martian subsurface may explain intermittent warm climates on ancient Mars, according to numerical simulations. Sedimentary evidence for palaeolakes requires infrequent, yet sustained, lake-forming climates.

Edwin S. Kite
Peter Gao
Yuk L. Yung
Research02 Oct 2017
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 10, P: 737-740
Unchanged frequency and decreasing magnitude of outbursts from ice-dammed lakes in Alaska

This study triples the number of previously known glacial lake outbursts in Alaska, documenting 1150 events over 35 years. The frequency of events did not change over time but total lake volume decreased, likely reducing the regional flood hazard.

B. Rick
D. McGrath
W. H. Armstrong
ResearchOpen Access02 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-10
Global assessment and hotspots of lake drought

During 1985–2018, over 15% of lakes experienced increasing drought frequency, with hotspots in the southern US and southeast Australia posing significant threats to water supplies, biodiversity, and ecological health, according to a global assessment of over 160,000 lakes using monthly lake area data.

Xing Cheng
Shuo Wang
Amir AghaKouchak
ResearchOpen Access21 Apr 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-12
Increased UV-B penetration in a lake owing to drought-induced acidification

Norman D. Yan
Wendel Keller
Peter J. Dillon
Research09 May 1996
Nature

Volume: 381, P: 141-143
Optical sieve for nanoplastic detection, sizing and counting

An optical sieve—an array of optically resonant voids in gallium arsenide—enables sorting, detecting and counting nanoplastics as small as a few hundreds of nanometres at concentrations as low as 150 μg ml⁻¹ in lake water samples.

D. Ludescher
L. Wesemann
M. Hentschel
Research08 Sept 2025
Nature Photonics

Volume: 19, P: 1138-1145
Source models to account for Lake Mungo palaeomagnetic excursion and their implications

R. S. COE
Research01 Sept 1977
Nature

Volume: 269, P: 49-51
Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Catherine M. O'Reilly
Simone R. Alin
Brent A. McKee
Research14 Aug 2003
Nature

Volume: 424, P: 766-768
Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Historically, warm periods enhanced the Asian summer monsoon—increased rainfall brought additional nutrients to freshwater ecosystems and increased production. However, anthropogenic aerosols have weakened the monsoon and altered lake ecosystems.

Jianbao Liu
Kathleen M. Rühland
John P. Smol
Research27 Feb 2017
Nature Climate Change

Volume: 7, P: 190-194
Late Quaternary Lake Levels in the Rift Valley of Southern Ethiopia and Elsewhere in Tropical Africa

A. T. GROVE
A. S. GOUDIE
Research17 Dec 1971
Nature

Volume: 234, P: 403-405
Mallomonadacean microfossils provide evidence of recent lake acidification

John P. Smol
Donald F. Charles
Donald R. Whitehead
Research16 Feb 1984
Nature

Volume: 307, P: 628-630
The Origin of Lake Basins

R. S. TARR
Research01 Feb 1894
Nature

Volume: 49, P: 315-316
Overprinting of natural magnetic remanence in lake sediments by a subsequent high-intensity field

Robert S. Coe
Joseph C. Liddicoat
Research06 Jan 1994
Nature

Volume: 367, P: 57-59
Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs

Michael L. Pace
Jonathan J. Cole
David Bastviken
Research15 Jan 2004
Nature

Volume: 427, P: 240-243
Technique to predict glacial lake bursts

Scientists apply it on a Himalayan lake to get worrying news.

K. S. Jayaraman
News20 Mar 2019
Nature India
The Electrical Conductivity of the Head-Waters of the White Nile

R. S. A. BEAUCHAMP
Research22 Sept 1956
Nature

Volume: 178, P: 616-619
Evaluating the restoration of Lake Manzala after dredging using water quality parameters and zooplankton changes

Seliem M. El Sayed
Mahmoud H. Hegab
Mohamed E. Goher
ResearchOpen Access10 May 2025
Scientific Reports

Volume: 15, P: 1-15
Simulated influences of Lake Agassiz on the climate of central North America 11,000 years ago

S. W. Hostetler
P. J. Bartlein
A. M. Solomon
Research18 May 2000
Nature

Volume: 405, P: 334-337
Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya

Two new cranial fossils found in Kenya have bearing on the relationship between Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Descriptions of a small H. erectus skull, and jaw material from a late-surviving specimen of Homo habilis demonstrate that the two species co-existed in the Lake Turkana basin in Kenya for almost half a million years.

F. Spoor
M. G. Leakey
L. N. Leakey
Research09 Aug 2007
Nature

Volume: 448, P: 688-691
Methane emissions from thermokarst lakes must emphasize the ice-melting impact on the Tibetan Plateau

Methane emissions from thermokarst lakes on the Tibetan Plateau have likely been underestimated, according to the integration of field surveys with machine learning

Cuicui Mu
Pengsi Lei
Zhen Zhang
ResearchOpen Access11 Mar 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-13
Cooperative efforts around Lake Tahoe

Stephen G. Wells
James S. Coleman
Kenneth W. Hunter Jr
Correspondence25 Nov 1999
Nature

Volume: 402, P: 348
Mixing in upper layer of a lake during heating cycle

S. A. THORPE
A. J. HALL
Research24 Feb 1977
Nature

Volume: 265, P: 719-722
Palaeoclimatic changes deduced from ¹³C/¹²C and C/N ratios of Karewa lake sediments, India

R. V. Krishnamurthy
S. K. Bhattacharya
Sheela Kusumgar
Research11 Sept 1986
Nature

Volume: 323, P: 150-152
Mediterranean vegetation, lake levels and palaeoclimate at the Last Glacial Maximum

I. Colin Prentice
Joël Guiot
Sandy P. Harrison
Research17 Dec 1992
Nature

Volume: 360, P: 658-660
Continental climate response to orbital forcing from biogenic silica records in Lake Baikal

S. M. Colman
J. A. Peck
D. F. Williams
Research28 Dec 1995
Nature

Volume: 378, P: 769-771
Palaeolimnological evidence that lake acidification is accompanied by loss of organic matter

Ronald B. Davis
Dennis S. Anderson
Frode Berge
Research01 Aug 1985
Nature

Volume: 316, P: 436-438
Microbial metagenomes from Lake Soyang, the largest freshwater reservoir in South Korea

Suhyun Kim
Miri S. Park
Jang-Cheon Cho
ResearchOpen Access11 Jul 2025
Scientific Data

Volume: 12, P: 1-7
Largest known microbialites discovered in Lake Van, Turkey

S. Kempe
J. Kazmierczak
A. Lipp
Research14 Feb 1991
Nature

Volume: 349, P: 605-608
Possible Syneresis Origin of Valleys on the Floor of Lake Superior

JONATHAN M. BERKSON
C. S. CLAY
Research14 Sept 1973
Nature

Volume: 245, P: 89-91
Sedimentation rates, residence times and radionuclide inventories in Lake Baikal from ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb in sediment cores

David N. Edgington
J. Val Klump
Igor V. Sandimirov
Research18 Apr 1991
Nature

Volume: 350, P: 601-604
Genes linked to schistosome resistance identified in a genome-wide association study of African snail vectors

A genome wide association study of an African vector of schistosomiasis revealed two genomic regions associated with resistance to Schistosoma mansoni. These findings will inform novel control strategies to interrupt transmission to humans.

Tom Pennance
Jacob A. Tennessen
Michelle L. Steinauer
ResearchOpen Access27 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-14
Thresholds of lake and reservoir connectivity in river networks control nitrogen removal

Lakes, reservoirs, and other ponded waters are common in large river basins yet their influence on nitrogen budgets is often indistinct. Here, the authors show how a ponded waters’ relative size, shape, and degree of connectivity to the river network control nitrogen removal.

Noah M. Schmadel
Judson W. Harvey
Durelle Scott
ResearchOpen Access17 Jul 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-10
Pre-industrial atmospheric lead contamination detected in Swedish lake sediments

Ingemar Renberg
Maria Wik Persson
Ove Emteryd
Research24 Mar 1994
Nature

Volume: 368, P: 323-326
The Impact of a Severe Drought on Dust Lifting in California’s Owens Lake Area

Cauê S. Borlina
Nilton O. Rennó
ResearchOpen Access11 May 2017
Scientific Reports

Volume: 7, P: 1-4
Flickering gives early warning signals of a critical transition to a eutrophic lake state

Critical transitions in experimental and theoretical systems can be anticipated on the basis of specific warning signs, with ‘critical slowing down’ being the best studied; long-term data from a real system, a Chinese lake, now show that a flickering phenomenon can be observed up to 20 years before the critical transition to a eutrophic state.

Rong Wang
John A. Dearing
Marten Scheffer
Research18 Nov 2012
Nature

Volume: 492, P: 419-422
Experimental evidence for recovery of mercury-contaminated fish populations

In a 15-year whole-ecosystem, single-factor experiment, stopping experimental mercury loading results in rapid decreases in methylmercury contamination of fish populations and almost complete recovery within the timeframe of the study.

Paul J. Blanchfield
John W. M. Rudd
Michael T. Tate
ResearchOpen Access15 Dec 2021
Nature

Volume: 601, P: 74-78
Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition

Here, the authors present archaeological excavations from two sites paired with life-size rock engravings from 12,800 to 11,400 years ago in the Nefud desert of northern Arabia. These engravings, depicting camels, ibex and more, combined with stone tools from associated archaeological deposits and sediment analyses of playa deposits, provide evidence of human populations exploiting seasonal waterbodies.

Maria Guagnin
Ceri Shipton
Michael Petraglia
ResearchOpen Access30 Sept 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-13
Observations on Lake Sediments using Fallout ¹³⁷Cs as a Tracer

W. PENNINGTON
T. G. TUTIN
E. M. FISHER
Research30 Mar 1973
Nature

Volume: 242, P: 324-326
Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu

Analysis of samples from the asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of late fluid flow in a carbonaceous asteroid, indicating that such bodies may have retained two to three times more water than previously thought.

Tsuyoshi Iizuka
Takazo Shibuya
Hisayoshi Yurimoto
Research10 Sept 2025
Nature

Volume: 646, P: 62-67
Draining of an ancient lake in the Hexi Corridor 4500 years ago triggered migration of the Hei Shan civilization

An ancient lake in the Hexi Corridor, which was to become part of the Silk Road, was an important occupation site of the Hei Shan civilization for 5000 years, but its later drainage, 4500 years ago, triggered human migration from this site. This is shown by thermoluminescence dating and facies analysis of sedimentary rocks from the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, correlated with interpretations of Hei Shan rock paintings.

Zijuan Dong
Zhenbo Hu
Renzhe Pan
ResearchOpen Access23 May 2025
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 6, P: 1-9
Simultaneous voltage-gated control of ion and water transport in Zr₄-Ti₃C₂T_x nanochannel membranes

Efficient voltage-controlled regulation of water and ion transport was achieved in stable Zr₄-Ti₃C₂T_x membranes. Under negative voltage, water diffusion was enhanced while ion transport was suppressed. This provides a promising strategy to overcome the intrinsic permeability– selectivity trade-off.

Yanlin Zhang
Lei Lei
Lei Wang
ResearchOpen Access08 Oct 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-15
Himalayan glacial lake a ticking time bomb

K. S. Jayaraman
News08 Feb 2013
Nature India
Lake Ontario salmon (Salmo salar) were not migratory: A long-standing historical debate solved through stable isotope analysis

Eric J. Guiry
Suzanne Needs-Howarth
Michael P. Richards
ResearchOpen Access08 Nov 2016
Scientific Reports

Volume: 6, P: 1-7

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