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Lake Chad is one of the many endangered bodies of water around the world.

As a result of water over-use due to agriculture, the size of the lake was rapidly shrinking, however, in the past 10 years, statellites have noticed a modest growth in the Lake's size. Let's hope that this new trend will continue, otherwise 10s of millions of people will be left without access to fresh water in an otherwise arid region.

If you'd like to read more about the lake, check out it's wikipedia article!

Japan has a very interesting geography. On one hand you have massive mountains that are very steep, and suddenly you drop to these extremely-flat plains that are close to sea-level.

On the central part of Honshu island (the biggest Japanese island), there is the Kansai plain, the largest city here is Osaka. Towards the east, you can see the Kanto plain which is also home to a massive population, and the largest city in the world by metropolitan population -- Tokyo (pop. 37,274,000).

The vast majority of Japan's 100+ million people live in these relatively small and flat plains.

For anyone wondering, the small red spot in North-Western Florida is a nature refuge which contains some extremly rare species of plants.

As you can see, the Green Belt zones are the only things keeping England from becoming one big & continous urban sprawl of cities from South London all the way to Liverpool. :office building: :deciduous tree: :office building: