UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Nadya Hutagalung talks about the importance of lakes and why she enjoys the benefits that lakes provide. She also calls upon stakeholders to commit to the UNEA 5.2 Sustainable Lake Management Resolution.

My thanks to Indonesia for your leadership in driving the sustainable lake management resolution passed at the 5th session of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi last year. This resolution is crucial to tackle the threats facing lakes and wetlands.

The Living Lakes Biodiversity & Climate Project is an ambitious global effort to catalyze the conservation of lakes and wetlands, as a climate solution that works both for people and biodiversity.

Exploring the geological history of Earth is fascinating work. That is what paleoclimatologists do. In order to understand climate change or to recognise it, we need to first understand what the planet was like before. This will help us gather what has changed and how.

PHYS.ORG - Lake Superior is known for its pristine waters, but a combination of nutrient additions from increasing human activity (including farming and development), warming temperatures and stormy conditions have resulted in more frequent blooms of potentially harmful algae.

For years it appeared as though Lake Turkana, which sits in an arid part of northern Kenya, was drying up. Its main river inflows had been muffled by dams and many feared water levels were poised to drop by two-thirds, causing the lake to cleave into two smaller bodies of water. It was, one report said, an African “Aral Sea disaster in the making” – where only 10 per cent remains of the original sea.