Dried up Lake in Western China (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Dried up Lake in Western China

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Western China is growing drier, turning lakes like this one to dust. If wind and rain patterns shift north as the study predicts, drying in this region could continue.

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David Putnam

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