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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A shrinking Chad Lake Chad now one-tenth of its 1972 size	Joseph Romm	22 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Satellite images show Lake Chad one-tenth the size it was in 1972, not even 40 years ago. Lake Chad used to be the world's sixth-largest lake, but its resources have been diverted for human use or affected by rainfall such that its been almost entirely depleted in a very short amount of time: In the IPCC's 2007 report (PDF) on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in Africa, there is no specific mention of Lake Chad. But staring at these satellite images one can ...
Topics: Chad, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, water crisis (all these topics)

Camarooned		18 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ...
Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics)

Hang In, Chad		23 Oct 2001	Daily Grist
Hang In, Chad Nearly 10 percent of African bird species are threatened with extinction, according to a newly completed eight-year study published by BirdLife International, an international coalition of conservation groups. The study said many of the species could be saved if 7 percent of the African continent was protected. It identified 1,228 important bird areas, and found that 51 percent of them were threatened by the expansion ...
Topics: Africa, Chad, wildlife (all these topics)

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