Shrinking Lake Chad
Another great map from strange maps. This one shows the dismaying rate at which Lake Chad is being hammered by climate change and overuse. Bad stuff, and this is not the only map being impacted like this.
The full article is here.
[...] disappearing between 1972 and 1987 – largely due to irrigation projects. Things have actually gotten worse since the second photo was taken… I have blogged on this one [...]