The Swiss Glacier Lakes catalog shows that nearly 1,200 new lakes have formed in the colder regions of the Swiss Alps since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850.
According to a study published by the Swiss Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), about 1,000 are still alive today.SLOTXO
That's more than the few hundred researchers expected to meet at the start of the project.
"We were amazed at the huge numbers," said Daniel Odermatt, head of the Eawag Remote Sensing group that conducted the study. said in a statement
He said the "marked acceleration in the pattern" was also surprising. It pointed out that "there has been an increase of 180 in the past decade alone.