limnology

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Two illustrated divers are superimposed onto a photograph showing a lake underwater.

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Large ocean waves breaking on a stormy day. (wave; sea; whitecaps; storm)

Why Is There Fresh and Salt Water on Earth?

Jane Goodall. British ethologist Dr. Jane Goodall (b. 1934) with chimpanzee Freud at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Goodall researches the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

10 Women Who Advanced Our Understanding of Life on Earth

Lake Issyk-kul kyrgyzstan

9 of the World’s Deepest Lakes

Lake Mead (the impounded Colorado River) at the Hoover Dam. The light-coloured band of rock above the shoreline shows the decrease in water level in the first few years of the 21st century.

6 Lakes That Are Drying Up

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Bar graph of the United States Death Toll during major events. Infogram chart.

U.S. Death Toll During Major Events

World map. Continents. Oceans. Mendel thumb ok

Just How Many Oceans Are There?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

limnology: Media

hydrology

Videos

Two illustrated divers are superimposed onto a photograph showing a lake underwater.

The science behind spooky lakes

Shipwrecks and mummies and toxic sludge, oh my!

Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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Keweenaw Bay

Keweenaw Bay

Keweenaw Bay, near L'Anse, southern Lake Superior, Michigan.

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