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Germany's drying Brandenburg Lake is symbol of climate change

After years of summer heatwaves and minimal rainfall, eastern Germany’s Lakelands are drying out, to the detriment of fish and plant life as well as fishermen.

Seddiner Lake, in the state of Brandenburg, south-west of Berlin, has sunk 60 centimeters annually on average over the past few years, with local geographer Knut Kaiser calling it the “beginning of the end” for the region’s lakes.