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April 4, 2012
April 4, 2012
Lily Pads, Eagle Lake
Photograph by Michael Melford, National Geographic
This Month in Photo of the Day: Nature and Weather Photos
An underwater camera offers a fish's-eye view of lily pads on Eagle Lake. Sulfur dioxide from power plants made many Adirondack lakes so acidic they became fishless. Thanks to the Clean Air Act and other measures, some now show signs of recovery.
See more pictures from the September 2011 feature story "Forever Wild."
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