Once one of Africa's largest lakes, Lake Chad has shrunk by roughly 90 percent since the 1960s due to climate change and overuse, making it one of the most documented cases of lake shrinkage in the world.
Record no. MRB-2026-006735
Lake Chad's dramatic shrinkage
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