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Lake Evaporation on the Rise

The amount of water evaporating from lakes worldwide is significantly more than previously thought, and reservoirs may play an outsized role.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Zhao, G., et al. (2022). Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published July 12, 2022
Data acquired 1985 - 2018

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