Lake Chad (Arabic: بحيرة تشاد, Kanuri: Sádǝ, French: Lac Tchad) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon, in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area in excess of 1,000,000 km 2 (390,000 sq mi). It is an important wetland ecosystem in West ...

Feb 16, 2020 · About 7,000 years ago, a vast lake spread hundreds of square kilometers across north-central Africa. Known to scientists as Lake Mega Chad, it covered more than 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles) at its peak, making it slightly larger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on Earth today.

Nestled in a low spot within a huge basin in west-central Africa is an isolated blue dot: That’s Lake Chad. Its water sustains people, animals, fishing, irrigation, and economic activity in Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. But in the past half century, Lake Chad has lost most of its water.

Sep 19, 2016 · There was once a huge lake in the middle of the Sahara Desert, it was named Mega Chad and it only took a few hundred years to shrink to a fraction of its original size. Scientists believe Mega Chad covered 139,000 sq. miles in Central Africa before it began evaporating 1000 years ago.

Jun 30, 2015 · We use optically stimulated luminescence dating of dunes, shorelines, and fluviolacustrine deposits to reconstruct the fluctuations of Lake Mega-Chad, which was the largest pluvial lake in...

Aug 3, 2022 · Up to around 3000 BC, Lake Mega-Chad measured over 150,000 square miles wide—just bigger than the Caspian Sea, the world’s current biggest lake. Lake Mega-Chad flexed its physique on a North Africa that would be unrecognizable today: a vast, verdant, and highly populated grassland nourished by rich rivers and mammoth lakes.

Jun 29, 2015 · At its peak around 6,000 years ago, Palaeolake Mega-Chad was the largest freshwater lake on Earth, with an area of 360,000 km 2. Now today's Lake Chad is reduced to a fraction of that...

5 days ago · Lake Chad, freshwater lake located in the Sahelian zone of west-central Africa at the conjunction of Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. It is situated in an interior basin formerly occupied by a much larger ancient sea that is sometimes called Mega-Chad.

Feb 20, 2020 · Lake Mega Chad was once an enormous lake in Africa. About 7,000 years ago it covered over 400,000 square kilometers (150,000 square miles). The image above shows a NASA Earth Observatory image of the remnants and former shorelines of the once huge lake.

Nov 30, 2016 · Scientific and popular views on the fate of Lake Chad differ widely. The supposed 'disappearance' of the Lake through water abstraction and climate change is a popular myth that endures because it serves a large set of heterogeneous interests, including those supporting inter-basin water transfers.