15-07-24 Lake Tahoe's iconic blueness is most strongly related to algae, not clarity, according to research released today from the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, or TERC. In the Tahoe: State of the Lake Report 2015, researchers found the lowe...

13-12-10 Scientists have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support life, in research published recently in the journal Science. A team of researchers from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rove...

13-09-11 Evidence of diverse life forms dating back nearly a hundred thousand years has been found in subglacial（冰川下的） lake sediments by a group of British scientists. The possibility that extreme life forms might exist in the cold and dark lakes hidde...

13-07-08 Lake Vostok, buried under a glacier in Antarctica, is so dark, deep and cold that scientists had considered it a possible model for other planets, a place where nothing could live. However, work by Dr. Scott Rogers, a Bowling Green State University...

13-06-05 Researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has been relatively untouched by changes in climate for the past 7000 years, and has so far also resisted the impact of humans. Blu...

13-03-08 Russian scientists have claimed the discovery of a new type of bacterial life in water from a buried Antarctic lake. 俄罗斯科学家称，他们在南极洲一个被掩盖的湖泊中发现了一种新细菌。 The researchers have been studying samples brought up from Vostok -...

13-01-30 In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial（冰川下的） lake and retrieve water and...

12-11-27 This week a pioneering study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and co-authored by Dr. Alison Murray and Dr. Christian Fritsen of Nevada's Desert Research Institute (DRI) reveals, for the first time, a viable com...

12-07-18 A pacu fish, known for eating human testicles, has been captured in Lake Lou Yaeger in Illinois, the Department of Natural Resources has stated. The fish is a relative of the piranha, which is known for its sharp teeth and vicious nature. 美国自然资...

10-07-23 Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms. A portion remains in the sediment（沉淀） , sometimes for thousands of years, while the rest is largely broken down to carbon dioxide and methane（甲烷） , which are released into th...