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Posted on May 8, 2008 in Latest News
The temperature of the world’s largest lake Baikal in Siberia is gradually rising. Known for its biological vastness with almost 2500 species of plant and animal world. Some of them so rare that could not be found in any other parts of the world. It is the world’s deepest lake and consists of 20% of world’s fresh water. A team of group of American and Russian scientists has discovered that the temperature is rising gradually on account of global warming.
This vast lake though isolated, is now no more remains untouched by the harmful hazards of global warming. The rise is temperature is the proof that even the extreme corners of the globe are getting affected. The lead member of the team Stephanie Hampton presented the report on Global Change Biology Journal. She is a renowned ecologist and deputy director of NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California. Another major team member is Marianne Moore, biologist as Wellesley, together with a group of four conducted the research and put forward the study.
The research was conducted keeping the statistics of last 60 years. This research work was collected by three generations of one family of Siberian Scientists. The data also highlighted the considerable warming of water and changes in the food cycle of the prehistoric largest lake of the world. Study was based on sampling for six decades of water sampling and environment.
Readings show that there in increase in water temperature to 1.21 degree Celsius from the year 1946, chlorophyll A 300 % from the year 1979, zooplankton grazers 335 % since 1946 shows the insinuation of cycles and food web.
Scientists have concluded this lake also has joined bandwagon like the other lakes namely lake superior, Tanganyika and Tahoe. The UNESCO in the year 1996 had declared it as the world’s heritage site on account of its biological diversity.
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