Overlooking Laguna Sucia
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Overlooking Laguna Sucia

by Giulia Cozzani, Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of the Environment and Space (LPC2E), Orléans, France

A hiker overlooks the turquoise waters of Laguna Sucia in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina. This landscape also reflects long-term environmental change: in photographs taken in 1945 by the Italian priest and mountaineer Alberto de Agostini a glacier covered most of the lagoon. Its retreat since then illustrates the visible impact of climate change in Patagonia.