Great Slave Lake’s huge cold water mass shielded it from impacts of the rapidly warming climate—until now.
Cheryl Katz
Cheryl Katz is an independent science journalist with a special interest in the Arctic. She has traveled and reported extensively from the High North, including Greenland, the Norwegian Arctic, and Iceland, since 2010. Prior to that, she was a staff writer covering science for the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, and other daily newspapers. She has a master’s degree in journalism with an emphasis on science communications from the University of Minnesota and an undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Grinnell College. Her bylines have appeared in Yale Environment 360, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Hakai Magazine, among others.
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