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Receding Shoreline of Lake Qinghai

Caption: Lake Qinghai's water level has been decreasing 10–12 cm per year during the past fifty years. The naked carp that feed and grow in the increasingly saline water have adapted by drastically changing their physiology.

Credit: Courtesy Chris Wood.

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