New Delhi, January 10 (IANS). In May 2025, Canada suddenly came face to face with a reality. This reality of Quebec province was horrifying. A lake here ‘Lake Rouge’ suddenly disappeared! After months, this incident is in the headlines because now concrete scientific facts and satellite studies have come to light regarding it.
The lake, which suddenly dried up in May 2025, was not given much attention at that time considering it to be a local and unusual natural phenomenon. Later, when photographs taken from space and scientific analysis recorded the entire process behind it, this matter became a topic of discussion in the global media and research world.
The most important scientific study regarding this phenomenon was published by NASA Earth Observatory, titled “The Disappearance of Lake Rouge.” This study was released on July 13, 2025. In this, high-resolution images taken from the OLI-2 instrument of the Landsat-9 satellite were analyzed. These photos made it clear that Lake Rouge lost almost all its water between April 29, 2025 and May 14, 2025. While the lake appeared completely full in June 2024, photographs from June 2025 showed dry and empty land in its place.
According to NASA scientists, satellite data also proved that the water of the lake did not come out slowly but in one stroke. The water created a new natural path and flowed for about 10 kilometers to another nearby lake. Such sudden drainage is called “outburst flood” in geological language, which is commonly seen in glacier lakes, but is extremely rare in normal lakes.
Subsequently, in early August 2025, space and science related websites such as ‘Space.com’ and other satellite-based analysis reports also confirmed NASA’s findings based on Landsat-9 data. These reports showed that the soil and natural dams along the lake’s banks were already weak and that heavy snow melting caused a sudden increase in water pressure, throwing the lake out of balance.
After these scientific facts have come to light, the question is being asked whether it should be considered only a natural accident or whether human activities like deforestation, old forest fires and climate change have further increased the possibility of this incident. Thus, the case of Lake Rouge is no longer just a story of the disappearance of a lake, but has become part of the ongoing global debate on climate change and environmental imbalance.
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