About 1.1 billion people live around the frozen lakes
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As sea ice and glaciers melt, the ice sheets covering the lakes are also disappearing. Lake ice loss has accelerated over the past 25 years, with northern hemisphere lakes melting an average of 45 days earlier than a century ago.
“Losing ice in freshwater systems has social, environmental and economic consequences,” he says Stephanie Hampton from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC.
Scientists have recently begun…
