Study: Climate Change Could Outpace EPA Lake Champlain Protections

Powerful new model indicates that current pollution standards may be inadequate to ward off worsening algae blooms
lake champlain

New research suggests that Lake Champlain may be more susceptible to damage from climate change than was previously understood—and that, therefore, the rules created by the EPA to protect the lake may be inadequate to prevent algae blooms and water quality problems as the region gets hotter and wetter.

“This paper provides very clear evidence that the lake could be far more sensitive to...

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From left, sophomore Gina Fiorile and professors Asim Zia, Lini Wollenberg and Jennie Stephens

Meet UVM’s COP21 Team

World leaders, scholars and activists will gather in Paris this month for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21. This year, the annual gathering aims to establish, for the first time in more than 20 years of UN negotiations, a binding, international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius.

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