Lake Chad
Lake Chad is disappearing. Satellite images published this week showed that you could walk across an expanse of what was once one of the world's largest lakes without getting your feet wet. In the past four decades the lake has shrivelled from 23,000 sq km (14,300 sq m) to just 900 sq km, a retreat that will force the redrawing of maps because the water no longer reaches Nigeria, Niger or Cameroon, and is now entirely within the borders of Chad. Learn More.
January 27, 2006 3:06 PM | Category: Global Warming