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CASPIAN SEA#Climatechange□ WHY IN NEWS ?
The Caspian is actually a lake, the largest in the world and it is experiencing a devastating decline in its water level that is about to accelerate.□ ABOUT CASPIAN SEA :-
◇ The Caspian Sea is the
world’s largest inland body of water, variously classed as the
world’s largest lake or a
full-fledged sea.◇ As an endorheic basin, it lies between
Europe and
Asia.
◇ An endorheic basin is a drainage basin that normally
retains water and allows
no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans.
◇ Its level is the product of how much water is
flowing in from rivers, mostly the mighty Volga to the north, how much
it rains and how much
evaporates away.
◇ At the end of the century, the Volga and other northern rivers will still be there.
◇ However, a projected temperature rise of about
3℃ to 4℃ in the region
will drive evaporation through the roof. ︎
SOURCE - Down to earth.
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