Climate change is causing our Alpine glaciers to deteriorate. More than 200 of the ice giants have disappeared since the late 1800s. In view of the increasingly frequent heat waves, the Alpine Club is now urgently sounding the alarm.
Accordingly, much of Europe’s currently 4,000 ice sheets are retreating or may be lost forever. For example, the Pasterze on the Großglockner, the largest local glacier, is said to have been lost 42.7 meters long last year alone.
But it could soon get even more drastic. Because in summer Austria’s most iconic glacier threatens to split in two and the sole, so important for survival, is separated from the feeding area. The fate of this legendary ice cream, once considered eternal, seems sealed…
The Neusiedler See continues to “die of thirst”.
The climate crisis with drought and heat has come and affects local waters as well. On Thursday alone, according to Ö3 meteorologists, Lake Neusiedler, the sea of the Viennese, lost two billion liters of water on a beautiful but again dry summer day. The lake (photo below) is practically “dying with thirst”.
In this context, the WWF warns against the planned supply from the Hungarian Moson-Danube. This would have “catastrophic ecological consequences” and ultimately lead to silting up of the water body, according to biologist Bernhard Kohler of the conservation organization.
Helmut Belanyecz of the Board of Trustees for Water Protection and Fisheries says floods have always filled the lake with precious water from the great river.
Source: Krone
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