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Lake Como is glitzy, glamorous and engulfed by tourism. The third largest lake in Italy, it sees as many as 1.4 million visitors a year descend on its shores. The tourist numbers are proving overwhelming for the holiday hotspot in northern Italy, and one city is now considering introducing a tourist tax. Mayor of the lakeside city of Como Alessandro Rapinese says he is mulling a Venice-style daily charge with suggestions that it could come into force soon. Lake Como to introduce a daytripper feeRapinese has lambasted Lake Como’s overtourism saying it is "difficult to be mayor when you are figh...
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Biologists have been keeping tabs on a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958. But they had to cut this season's planned seven-week survey short after just a fortnight. The ski plane the Michigan Tech University researchers study the wolves from uses the frozen lake as a landing strip because there's nowhere to touch down on the island. But this weirdly warm winter left the Great Lakes nearly devoid of ice. As climate change accelerates, scientists are scrambling to understand how iceless winters could affect the world's largest freshwater system. Most of...
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Lake Geneva, Western Europe's largest freshwater reserve, is facing a hidden crisis. Its water temperature is rising at an alarming rate - 4 to 5 times faster than the world's oceans. With average annual temperatures reaching a record 13.6 degrees Celsius, it is throwing the lake's delicate ecosystem into disarray. Fishermen see the impact of global warmingProfessional fishermen are seeing the consequences when they raise their nets. Some species are becoming more abundant or reproducing at different times while others disappear as the waters warm. "Here's the big winner of global warming... L...
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Chicago (AFP) - On a fall night in 2019, Eric Brandt was awoken by the sound of steel rods cracking inside concrete. "I heard the pings. I know the sound because I used to drill rebar into the top of coal mines," Brandt explained. "I couldn't even imagine what was happening out there." But Brandt, a 69-year-old former mine worker, was nowhere near a coal mine. He was in bed in his condominium on the shore of Lake Michigan, on the South Side of Chicago. Brandt, now a writer, recalled that it was the second major storm that he lived through in four years at his building. This time, crashing wave...
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Pristina (AFP) - In addition to his own golf clubs and hotels, Donald Trump may soon have a lake named after him following proposals to christen a contested Balkan reservoir in his honour.The lake in question is a 24-kilometre (15-mile) stretch of water straddling the border of former war foes Serbia and Kosovo, who both claim ownership and have different names for it. A huge banner appeared Thursday on Kosovo's side of the reservoir reading "Lake Trump", while another hung over a bridge thanked Trump for "bringing peace" following recent US-brokered agreements between Kosovo and Serbia. The t...
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