Things are bad for our Alpine glaciers due to climate change. More than 200 of the ice giants have disappeared since the end of the 19th century. In view of the increasingly frequent heat waves, the Alpine Club is now urgently sounding the alarm.
According to this, a large part of the currently 4000 ice sheets in Europe are retreating or could be lost forever. The Pasterze on the Großglockner, for example, the largest local glacier, lost 42.7 meters in length last year alone, it is said. But it could soon become even more drastic. Because in the summer, Austria’s most iconic glacier threatens to split in two and the tongue, which is so important for survival, to be separated from the feeding area. The fate of this legendary ice, which was once considered eternal, seems to be sealed…Lake Neusiedl continues to “die of thirst”. On Thursday alone, according to Ö3 meteorologists, Lake Neusiedl, the sea of the Viennese, lost two billion liters of water on a beautiful but once again dry summer day. The lake (picture below) is “dying of thirst”. In this context, the WWF warns of the planned supply from the Hungarian Moson-Danube. This would have “catastrophic ecological consequences” and would ultimately lead to silting up of the water, according to biologist Bernhard Kohler from the nature conservation organization. Helmut Belanyecz from the Board of Trustees for Water Protection and Fisheries counters that flooding has always filled the lake with precious water from the great river have.
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