Why Is A Restaurant Moving Towards Switzerland from Italy
Due to Climate Change melting glaciers the Swiss-Italian border is moving.
Borders are somewhat fixed lines between countries. Many countries fight wars to maintain their borders. Water defines about one-third of the world’s borders. Climate Change will chance those borders by moving some of the water.
Switzerland, Italy, and Austria
For the most part, governments place borders on rivers. If it’s a mountainous border, the mountain peaks shape the border.
If it is a snow-capped mountain, then its watershed defines the boundary. Italy, Austria, and Switzerland share their borders in the famous Alps mountain range. Snow covers the Alps for much of the year..
In 1942, the Swiss and Italian governments decided to fix the border on the watershed of the glacier, which was easy to locate. Swiss and Italian geologists marked the border and closed the file. In 1975, geologists again checked the border and were astonished to find that the border had moved.
