Follow Dec. 24, 2020 Global warming will not only cause sea levels to rise but lakes to shrink, a team of Dutch scientists warned this week. As a case in point, they predict a catastrophic drop in water levels in the Caspian Sea – presently the largest lake in the world – by the century’s end. “Many people are not even aware that an inland lake is dramatically shrinking due to climate change, as our models indicate,” stated co-author Matthias Prange of the MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, writing in Communications Earth and Environment. W...