Photos from open sources Today is Baikal, but did you know that in the deep antiquity they were Lake Chad, instead of which stands today lifeless Sahara desert.
Six thousand years ago, instead of sand, splashing in this place waves of a huge lake, which was not inferior in area today’s Caspian Sea (lake), however, unlike him was freshwater, not salty. Scientists still find in the desert Sugar is the fossilized remains of various fish that once inhabited this huge reservoir of the world. And its maximum size, like they installed recently, persisted six thousand years ago.
By the way, Lake Chad still exists, and even provides fresh water nearly a hundred million people in Africa however these days this is a miserable semblance of that huge freshwater sea that is here was in antiquity.
What made this giant pond almost disappear turning into a “pitiful puddle”? According to researchers, in unreasonable activity played a decisive role in this a man who began to actively develop the lands around this freshwater and cut down forests. As a result was broken ecological balance, and the lake began to dry out, turning into after all, into the present Sahara desert.
It is no coincidence that Russian scientists are sounding the alarm around freshwater Lake Baikal, which may well share the fate of Chad.
And what about the Sahara desert? It turns out Nature took care so that this lifeless territory plays a role in preserving the necessary balance in the global environmental space. Today Sugar sends millions of tons of phosphorus and other elements with dust, needed by the Amazon as the great river of American continent every year washes it all into the ocean. Surprising in this case replenishment mechanism: for example, how much phosphorus is washed out of soil with Amazon water per year, so much is brought in by air from Sugars, along with dust, literally up to a ton. Amazing but nature even takes into account those fifteen percent of the dust that is deposited in the ocean – on the road from Africa to America …
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