{"id":3893,"date":"2015-02-25T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T23:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2015-03-01T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:38:53","slug":"boreal-hard-water-lakes-could-become-carbon-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/boreal-hard-water-lakes-could-become-carbon-sink\/","title":{"rendered":"Boreal hard water lakes could become carbon sink<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3894\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jpeg_base649553efa488063d86.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3894\" class=\"wp-image-3894\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jpeg_base649553efa488063d86.jpg\" alt=\"Buffalo Pound Lake near Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan. (Credit: jlongland, flickr.com )\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jpeg_base649553efa488063d86.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jpeg_base649553efa488063d86-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buffalo Pound Lake near Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/12135872@N00\/4851800678\/in\/photolist-h6TtPJ-h6U1DQ-h6TPGP-h6UR2w-h6TyzV-h6U5vB-h6UUtj-5aa1G6-8oJJFh-8oFz8T-8oFzfx-8oFzGr-8oJKiQ-8oJJZ9-8oFzWe-8oFA3p-qpUJmi-obTCUh\">Credit: jlongland, flickr.com)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hard water lakes\u00a0such as the Buffalo Pound Lake in Saskatchewan,\u00a0are common in the Prairie provinces. Boreal lakes normally emit greenhouse gases with the breakdown of organic matter. New research shows that atmospheric warming could transform these lakes into carbon sinks.<\/p>\n<p>This study contradicts the general assumption that global warming will invariably increase CO2 emissions from aquatic ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature14172.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>February 25<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Peter R. Leavitt, Department of Biology, University of Regina,\u00a0Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard water lakes\u00a0such as the Buffalo Pound Lake in Saskatchewan,\u00a0are common in the Prairie provinces. Boreal lakes normally emit greenhouse gases with the breakdown of organic matter. New research shows that atmospheric warming could transform these lakes into carbon sinks. This study contradicts the general assumption that global warming will invariably increase CO2 emissions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1921,31,1445,1810],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-carbon","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/jpeg_base649553efa488063d86.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-10N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}