{"id":74653,"date":"2023-06-23T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=74653"},"modified":"2023-06-23T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:45:11","slug":"more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=74653","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half of World&#8217;s Large Lakes Are Drying Up, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the world&#8217;s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published Thursday found.<\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers reported that some of the world&#8217;s most important water sources \u2014 from the Caspian Sea between Europe and Asia to South America&#8217;s Lake Titicaca \u2014 lost water at a cumulative rate of about 22 gigatonnes per year for nearly three decades&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/more-than-half-of-world-s-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds-\/7099984.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of the world&#8217;s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",800,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",800,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds.jpg",800,450,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/74653-more-than-half-of-worlds-large-lakes-are-drying-up-study-finds-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}