Lewis Pugh, a celebrated endurance swimmer, will attempt what he describes as his toughest swim to date in an effort to bring attention to environmental issues.
Pugh, who has helped advocate for in environmental advocacy for more than 15 years, worked with glaciologists from Durham University in England to map out one of the lakes in a region known as Dronning Maud Land. By swimming across a supraglacial lake, Pugh and other ocean advocates hope to draw enough attention to East Antarctica's landscape that world leaders will take action to protect it.
“We’ve known for some time that lakes are forming in East Antarctica, but we were surprised at quite how many had formed and all around the ice sheet margin,” Chris Stokes, a professor at Durham University and the lead author of the study, said in an email. Scientists and researchers have only recently started studying the formation of these lakes in East Antarctica. The next step in their research is to examine how much the number of lakes varies from year to year.
Lewis Pugh trains in a river under the Antarctic ice sheet, as he prepares for "toughest" swim of his life on Jan. 20, 2020.“Lakes themselves are not an indication of a warming climate and they have always been around,” Stokes wrote. “However, we would expect more and more lakes to form in a warming climate, and this is exactly what we have seen in Greenland, more and more lakes forming and also forming at higher elevations.
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