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Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education says Lake Superior’s temperature has risen about five degrees since the late 1990s, and is one of the fastest warming lakes in the world.
Alternating every hour, the swimmers swam through the night to complete the 48-mile swim, marking the longest observed, documented swim in Lake Superior.
Six swimmers completed a 48-mile, 24-hour relay in Lake Superior, from Split Rock Lighthouse to Duluth, without wetsuits — to set a record and to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on one of the world’s largest lakes.
A Maplewood man swam the St. Croix River from Stillwater to Hastings to raise money for a local food shelf.
This piece is an update to a previously published story.