Coping with climate change around the world
For many people around the world today, climate change is a stark reality. Lifestyles and livelihoods are being impacted in devastating ways as temperatures increase, ice vanishes, and sea levels rise. But this is where human ingenuity comes into play. Here are just some examples of communities around the world working together to combat climate change. Melting glaciers The Alps are warming faster than the global average. In Austria, for example, temperatures have risen by 2C since 1880, compared with 0.85C, globally. 1 Glaciers are shrinking because of global warming and this threatens groundwater supplies for many regions. In the case of the Morteratsch Glacier, glaciologist Dr Felix Keller is working to halt its retreat. His MortAlive project aims to “recycle” meltwater from the glacier by turning it into artificial snow that is sprayed back on top of the ice, forming a defensive layer that reflects the heat of the summer sun. 2 This follows success with the ...
