Climate change: Bolivia’s second largest lake dries up, in pictures - Telegraph
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The second largest lake in Bolivia, Lake Poopo, is in the process of desertification due to the effects of climate change, mining pollution and the intensification of #El_Nino and #La_Nina weather cycles.
#climat #désertification #pollution #photographie #Lac_Poopo
Beau reportage du NYT
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity
►http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/07/world/americas/bolivia-climate-change-lake-poopo.html
Ouch, le lac a presque complètement disparu comme on peut le voir sur ces images de la nasa :
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/87000/87363/lakepoopo_oli_2013102_lrg.jpg 
http://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/87000/87363/lakepoopo_oli_2016015_lrg.jpg ▻http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=87363
Climate Change Claims a Lake, and an Identity - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/07/world/americas/bolivia-climate-change-lake-poopo.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1
The water receded and the fish died. They surfaced by the tens of thousands, belly-up, and the stench drifted in the air for weeks.
The birds that had fed on the fish had little choice but to abandon Lake Poopó, once Bolivia’s second-largest but now just a dry, salty expanse. Many of the Uru-Murato people, who had lived off its waters for generations, left as well, joining a new global march of refugees fleeing not war or persecution, but climate change.
“The lake was our mother and our father,” said Adrián Quispe, one of five brothers who were working as fishermen and raising families here in Llapallapani. “Without this lake, where do we go?”
Bolivia’s Second-Largest Lake Dries Up: Is Utah’s Great Salt Lake Next?
▻http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/10/bolivia-lake-poopo-great-salt-lake
The authors blame overconsumption, particularly agriculture, which consumes 63 percent of the water in the Great Salt Lake Basin.
“Loss of water in the lake threatens its unique ecology, along with the wildlife and industries that depend on the lake’s ecosystem services,” Wurtsbaugh said. “Further, lowering lake levels increase dust pollution, which worsens the health effects of the Salt Lake City area’s already serious air pollution problems.”
Bolivia’s second-largest lake dries up and may be gone forever, lost to climate change | World news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/bolivias-second-largest-lake-dries-up-and-may-be-gone-forever-lost-to-c
Lake Poopó was officially declared evaporated in December. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and gone.
High on Bolivia’s semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 metres (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially dried up before only to rebound to twice the area of Los Angeles.
But recovery may no longer be possible, scientists say.
“This is a picture of the future of climate change,” says Dirk Hoffman, a German glaciologist who studies how rising temperatures from the burning of fossil fuels has accelerated glacial melting in Bolivia.
#Lac_Poopó #Bolivie #climat #sécheresse #eau
Bolivia’s second-largest lake dries up and may be gone forever, lost to climate change
As Andean glaciers disappear, so do the sources of Lake Poopó’s water, say scientists who blame a warming environment, #El_Niño and mining
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/22/bolivias-second-largest-lake-dries-up-and-may-be-gone-forever-lost-to-c
#Bolivie #lac #disparition #assèchement #climat #changement_climatique #Lac_Poopó #mines
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