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Smaller fish. Darker lakes. Warmer air. Climate change has been impacting fresh water for as long as the world’s freshwater laboratory has been operating. We reveal five things we have discovered, and what we can do to fix them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15243,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"blog_types":[194],"environmental_issues_type":[201],"class_list":["post-27305","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog_types-our-research","environmental_issues_type-climate-change"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThis Is What Climate Change is Doing to our Fresh Water | IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Climate change has been affecting lakes in Canada and globally for decades. 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