"Lake Chad, once one of the African continent's largest bodies of fresh water, has dramatically decreased in size due to climate change (drier climate - less rain but still lots of evaporation) and human demand for water." It is now 1/20th of the size it was 35 years ago.
- has gone from 30,000 km2 to 3,000 km2
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Lake Chad became a freshwater inland. lake bigger than todays Caspian Sea, in an conditions, the advent of humans is a very recent. event.
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- shared by five countries
- in 1983 the amount of water used for irrigation began to increase
- between 1983 and 1994 the amount quadrupled
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the evolution of this trait has often been attributed to In recent years two important advances have occurred in archaeobotany: the recognition of pre
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- drought, irrigation and irrigation schemes (building of dams on tributary rivers) have been the reasons
Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth::
ocean cycle, which is a major cause of recent climate change in Alaska. Blames global warming for the disappearance of Lake Chad, a phenomenon more
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A SHADOW OF A LAKE: AFRICA'S DISAPPEARING LAKE CHAD
- has photos
- time lapse movies showing the change
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/200102...
Science in Africa - Replenishing Lake Chad
http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/2003/ma...
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