Concerns grow as Uttarakhand’s ‘skeleton lake’ is shrinking

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News: Climate Change and Global Warming are believed to be the reasons behind the shrinking of the Roopkund lake.

1. Climate Change: United Nations defines climate change as long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. Such shifts can be natural or anthropogenic in origin.

2. Roopkund Lake: It is located 16,500 feet above sea level at the bottom of a steep slope on Trishul in the Garhwal Himalayas.

3. It is famously known as the ‘lake of skeleton’ as hundreds of human skeletons emerge when the snow melts.

4. A 2019 study claimed that these skeletons belonged to individuals who were genetically diverse, discarding the theory that the skeletons were of a single group.

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