{"id":7752,"date":"2020-01-27T08:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T05:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"in-100-000-years-lake-victoria-has-dried-up-three-times-it-could-happen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/27\/in-100-000-years-lake-victoria-has-dried-up-three-times-it-could-happen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In 100 000 Years Lake Victoria Has Dried Up Three Times. It Could Happen Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Emily J. Beverly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world\u2019s largest tropical freshwater lake. At&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/229541663_Management_issues_in_the_Lake_Victoria_watershed\">68,800km\u00b2<\/a>, it\u2019s also the second largest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Superior in North America. On a clear day you cannot see the other side of Lake Victoria, yet this vast body of water&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/331\/6022\/1299\">has dried up<\/a>&nbsp;several times in the past \u2013 and it could happen again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past 100,000 years, the lake has completely dried up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0012821X19305758?via%3Dihub\">at least<\/a>&nbsp;three times. Each time it was probably replaced by a vast grassland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My colleagues and I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0012821X19305758?via%3Dihub\">found that<\/a>\u00a0the lake could dry up again in as little as 500 years because of changes in temperature, rainfall and orbital forcing \u2013 the effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of the Earth\u2019s axis. Our predictions are based on historical and geologic data from the last 100,000 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/in-100-000-years-lake-victoria-has-dried-up-three-times-it-could-happen-again-129361\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily J. Beverly Lake Victoria, in East Africa, is the world\u2019s largest tropical freshwater lake. At&nbsp;68,800km\u00b2, it\u2019s also the second largest freshwater lake in the world after Lake Superior&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}