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Not So Great a Lake: Is Lake Chad Doomed?

April 26, 2017BBC decline doomed global warming great Lake lake chad niger

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Not So Great a Lake: Is Lake Chad Doomed?

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Not So Great a Lake: Is Lake Chad Doomed? Sunday April 23, 2006Global warming and extraction of water by humans are being blamed for Lake Chad shrinking to 20 per cent the size it once was, according to BBC News. The lake is used by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria. “Just 40 years ago there was 15,000 square miles of water. Now the latest satellite pictures put it at just over 500 square miles, and falling.” Read more on the decline of Lake Chad… Comments (0)See All Posts Share