90,000 sq km of water has vanished in last 32 yrs


Aral Sea accounts for biggest loss; Iraq loses third of water area
Ninety thousand sq km of water -the equivalent of half of the lakes in Europe -has vanished from the surface of the Earth since 1984, according to new research.

Google has teamed up with the European Commission's Joint Research ropean Commission's Joint Research Centre to analyse 3 million satellite images, going all the way back to 1984.

The project has been a monumental undertaking and was made possible by new data processing methods, running the analysis on thousands of high performance computers simultaneously............Read more

 

Source: The Times of India


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