Quick Glance: Shrinking Lakes: Human Impact and Climate Change Cost Trillions of Gallons Annually
- A new study finds that climate change and society's water diversion have been causing the world's lakes to shrink by trillions of gallons of water annually since the early 1990s.
- An examination of nearly 2,000 of the largest lakes reveals an annual loss of about 5.7 trillion gallons (21.5 trillion liters).
- Tijuana, one of the last cities downstream to receive water from the shrinking Colorado River, is facing a water crisis.
- Even areas that are getting wetter due to climate change are losing lake water as hotter air draws out more moisture from the lakes.
Quick Glance: How China's new No. 2 has hastened Xi's zero-COVID policy's demise
- According to the four persons and another person with knowledge of the situation, he abruptly drove a decision to activate the reopening plans sooner than planned, in an effort to minimize the economic toll of the zero-COVID campaign and protests that had upset the leadership.
- According to two of the people, Xi directed Chinese officials to "unswervingly" implement the zero-COVID policy in mid-November, while he was still in Southeast Asia, following which certain towns tightened prohibitions.
- According to one of these persons and another, Xi's vacillating led to a renewed debate over COVID policy among top leaders in mid to late November.
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