Climate Sadness: The Fragile Beauty of Tonlé Sap

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780042110658
Author(s):  
Edgar A. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Human History ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Academic Conference ◽  
Tonle Sap ◽  
Fresh Water Lake ◽  
Ebb And Flow

Tonlé Sap is the large fresh water lake-river near the geographic center of Cambodia. Visiting Tonlé Sap, following an academic conference in Phnom Penh, demanded a response at a personal and more visceral human level. Writing this poem attempted to express disquiet beyond academic examination of the biophysical dimensions of Tonlé Sap. The poem is sad for Tonlé Sap, for Cambodia, and implicitly for all of us on this planet. For thousands of years people have lived around Tonlé Sap, adapting to weather, the flow of water from mountain to sea, and the changing ebb and flow of civilizations. Anthropogenic sea level rise challenges all of this human history, unnecessarily.

The Maglemose Remains of Holderness and their Baltic Counterparts

1924 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Leslie Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Peat Moss ◽  
The West ◽  
Neolithic Culture ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

During recent years certain transitional cultural stages have been recognised which link up the Palæolithic and Neolithic civilisations, and for which the term Mesolithic is generally accepted. Of these the Maglemose stage is perhaps the most important, because in it are seen pronounced Palæolithic influences, and survivals, side by side with the first recognisable expressions of Neolithic culture.The typical station was discovered in 1900 by Dr. Sarauw, the Danish archæologist, in the peat moss of Maglemose, literally “the great moor,” formerly a fresh water lake but now thirteen feet above sea level, and situated near Mullerup, on the west coast of Zeeland.

scholarly journals Geo-Dynamics, Salinity Gradient, and Vegetation Interdependence in Chilika Lagoon, a Tropical Wetland in Eastern India

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujit Kumar Mishra ◽  
Siba Prasad Mishra ◽  
Kalpataru Das
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Hydraulic System ◽  
Salinity Gradient ◽  
Chilika Lagoon ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Geomorphic Features ◽  
Extreme North ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

<p>Chilika a shallow brackish lagoon, India, is shrinking for sediment surplus budget. South Mahanadi deltaic branches <em>i.e.</em> Daya and Bhargavi terminate at the southwest swamps of the Lagoon. The annual average salinity of the lake was depleted from 22.31ppt (1957-58) to 8.5 ppt. (1999-2000) as the mixing process of saline and fresh water was influenced from 1995. Trepidation of conversion of  Chilika to a atrophied fresh water lake due to blooming population and their hydrologic interventions like Kolleru lake in (India), Aral Lake (Uzbekistan) was apprehended by 1950’s and was alarming by 1999 when the shallow inlet(s) shifted extreme north. The shallow mud flats of lean salinity were reclaimed further for agriculture. The ecology and biodiversity degraded with substantial pecuniary loss to the lagoon dependents. Anthropogenic interventions like, Hirakud dam (1956), dredging of Sipakuda Inlet (2000), Naraj barrage at delta head (2004), Gobardhanpur barrages (1998) and Gabkund cut with weir (2014) were made to the hydraulic system. The deteriorating health, perturbed biodiversity and declined ecosystem of the lagoon has forced to have a comparative study of the various morphologic changes passed over the Chilika with time. The meteorological, hydrologic and the salinity study of the lagoon area for the period 1990 to 2016 have shown changes. Topographic study using GIS is developed by collecting data from Glovis Classic (Google) and the interpretation is done using ERDAS 9.2 software for various geomorphic features (1984 and 2017) before and after the current anthropogenic interventions and compared with previous studies.</p>

Blooms of an algophorous amoeba associated with anabaena in a fresh water lake

1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. L. Cook ◽  
D. G. Ahearn ◽  
D. J. Reinhardt ◽  
R. J. Reiber
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

Full STR Profile of a 67-Year-Old Bone Found in a Fresh Water Lake

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. S172-S175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelius Courts ◽  
Burkhard Madea
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Str Profile ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

scholarly journals Nutrient Overloading of Fresh Water Lake of Bhopal, India

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Savita Dixit ◽  
S.K. Gupta ◽  
Suchi Tiwari
Keyword(s):  
Fresh Water ◽  
Water Lake ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

scholarly journals Risks of Climate Change at Coastal Tourism in Bangladesh: A Study on Cox’s Bazar

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3(I)) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sohel Ahmed, S. M
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Environmental Resources ◽  
Coastal Tourism ◽  
Population Displacement ◽  
Fish Stocks

This study is on ‘Risk of climate change at coastal tourism in Bangladesh. The main aim of thisresearch is to describe the risks associated with climate change that has an impact on tourism. The study usesprimary data collected from the respondents (Domestic, Local and International Tourists) by using variousmethods like; observation, survey and questionnaire. This research mainly adopts with close-endedquestionnaire. This study uses Five Point Likert scale to measure the intensity of risk. This research identifiesvarious types of risk like Rise of sea level, Rise of temperature, Acidic Sea, Damage Property, Damageinfrastructure, Damage Livelihood, Damage environmental resources, Inundation during Storm, Risky Road,Heat Waves, Coastal Floods, Droughts, Pollution, Leads Powerful Hurricanes, and Allergy. This study alsoexplores some other risks including Rainstorm, Disrupt Food Supply, Mangrove Deforestation, SalineIntrusion, Scarcity of Fresh Water, Population Displacement, Water Intrusion, Undermining of LocalCommunities, Coastline Erosion, Fish Stocks Inundate, Rough weather, Hot Sunshine with their intensity.

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