Limnology: Earth’s lakes added up
Nature 512, 7515 (2014). doi:10.1038/512351b
The world is home to 117 million lakes, according to a satellite-based survey.Lakes are important to the planet’s carbon cycle, but researchers have struggled to estimate the number that exist, in part because small lakes have been difficult to count. A team led by
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