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Global warming parches China

Statistics on global warming have raised worries over China's largest freshwater lake, located in the southeastern province of Jiangxi.

Since the summer, Poyang Lake's surface area has dropped to 50 square kilometers from its initial surface of more than 3,000. A key element of these changes is a huge fluctuation from the summer flood season to the winter dry period. According to the Jiangxi hydrological bureau, the area of the lake was 10 times larger last winter, with a surface covering 300 to 500 square kilometers.

Statistics showed that the water level approached its lowest level ever in early December, when it hit less than eight meters deep. If we take into account forecasts showing that the current dry season will last until March, and the fact that people in the region haven't seen so little rainfall since 1960, we may see another record of the water level pretty soon.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has also offered a pessimistic forecast and anticipates the winter drought will continue for the next 10 years.

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