ae.08 The impact of climate change on Swiss Alpine Environments

Geo tool

Task

Create a Google Earth project that tells the story of the challenges, caused by climate change, in the Alpine Environments of Switzerland.

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Requirements

  1. Ensure that all the 'challenges' are located - in that you can link them to an actual location/area of Switzerland.
  2. Make use of different landscape views, fullscreen slides and info panes.
  3. Use the 'Draw line or shape' tool to produce linear features to help you show changes.
  4. Google Earth has a 'Measure distance and area' tool... use it!
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Climate change - the arrival of Spring

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MeteoSwiss - Long-term series of phenological observations

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Glacial change

Placemark

Trient glacier

Placemark

Aletsch glacier

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Freshwater - Swiss lakes

Link

lenews.ch - Swiss lakes at risk to climate change [25 February 2021]

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Landslides

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BBC News - Switzerland landslide: Are the Alps melting? [25 August 2017]

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Summer skiing

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corvatsch.ch - Skiing in summer

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Possible futures...

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swissinfo.ch - Switzerland's future with a changing climate [5 December 2019]