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Nature / 28 August 2014

Limnology: Earth’s lakes added up

Image © Ian Woolcock

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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Tagged: #Rivers & Lakes

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