ae.08 The impact of climate change on Swiss Alpine Environments
Task
Create a Google Earth project that tells the story of the challenges, caused by climate change, in the Alpine Environments of Switzerland.
Requirements
- Ensure that all the 'challenges' are located - in that you can link them to an actual location/area of Switzerland.
- Make use of different landscape views, fullscreen slides and info panes.
- Use the 'Draw line or shape' tool to produce linear features to help you show changes.
- Google Earth has a 'Measure distance and area' tool... use it!
Climate change - the arrival of Spring
MeteoSwiss - Long-term series of phenological observations
Glacial change
Trient glacier
Aletsch glacier
Freshwater - Swiss lakes
lenews.ch - Swiss lakes at risk to climate change [25 February 2021]
Landslides
BBC News - Switzerland landslide: Are the Alps melting? [25 August 2017]
Summer skiing
corvatsch.ch - Skiing in summer
Possible futures...
swissinfo.ch - Switzerland's future with a changing climate [5 December 2019]