Saturday 23 January 2016

'A picture of the future of climate change' - Bolivia's second-largest lake evaporates


Lake Poopo was officially declared evaporated last month. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people have lost their livelihoods and gone.

High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3700 metres (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially dried up before only to rebound to twice the area of Los Angeles.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/environment/news/article.cfm?c_id=39&objectid=11577579

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