PubMed. (2024, January 1). Greenhouse gas emissions from Daihai Lake, China: Should eutrophication and salinity promote carbon emission dynamics?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37778815/
This article provides a little bit more information regarding the correlation between algal blooms on greenhouse gasses. Lakes have always played an important role in absorbing and emitting greenhouse gasses, but it seems like eutrophication and nitrogen compound runoff is disturbing how lakes interact with methane and carbon dioxide. There still isn’t much known about eutrophic lakes and what it will mean for the future of climate change, but this study illuminates how there could be potentially dangerous effects from lake emissions.
This article is important because it gives context to the difficulties environmental scientists experience when doing research. Few studies have been done on this topic, and it prevents us from having a comprehensive look on interactions between greenhouse gasses and greenhouse gas sinks. Additionally, with how much lakes vary across the world, it makes it even more difficult to get a comprehensive understanding and then find a solution. But it still is incredibly important for us to understand, mostly because of how potent methane is as a greenhouse gas, and how if we have more than we expected then we need the flexibility to adapt to it. We need to tackle eutrophication, the main root cause of this, before it begins to exacerbate climate change as well.