WASHINGTON — Climate change's hotter temperatures and society's diversion of water have been shrinking the world's lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds.
The Aral Sea is visible on Aug. 25, 2000, left, and on Aug. 21, 2018, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, in these images from the NASA Earth Observatory. Climate change’s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year, a new study finds.
A man stands on a hill overlooking a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Jan. 27 near Boulder City, Nev.
The Aral Sea is visible on Aug. 25, 2000, left, and on Aug. 21, 2018, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, in these images from the NASA Earth Observatory. Climate change’s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year, a new study finds.
A man stands on a hill overlooking a formerly sunken boat standing upright into the air with its stern buried in the mud along the shoreline of Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Jan. 27 near Boulder City, Nev.
