Melting glaciers in the Swiss Alps have created 1,000 new lakes, including nearly 200 lakes, in the last 10 years.
SWITZERLAND: Climate change has drastically changed the Swiss Alps from glaciers to nearly 1,200 new lakes since 1850 and 1,000 of them still exist today, while climate change is affecting the landscape, according to the website. Daily Mail.
Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Fisheries Science and Technology (Eawag) have combined aerial photographs of mountains and years of data on Swiss glaciers to determine the inventory of lakes. The analysis also shows that 180 of the existing lakes were formed from 2006 to 2016, when 18 new lakes appeared each year.
Eawag said this was visible evidence of climate change in the Alps. "On the one hand, we are surprised by the growing number and on the other hand by the remarkable acceleration in production," said Daniel Odermatt, head of remote sensing at Eawag Fisheries Research Institute. Up.
At the start of the project, we expected a few hundred freshwater lakes, now over a thousand, and 180 have been added in the last decade. The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range in Europe, spanning 745 miles through eight countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland.
However, this magnificent mountain range has fallen victim to climate change, which has melted huge glaciers into a pool of water. According to scientists, glaciers lost two percent of their volume last year, and a quarter of newly formed lakes have shrunk or disappeared.
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