Chilika Lake - Asia's largest brackish water lagoon with water spread ranging from 1165 sq km m the rainy season to 906 sq km in the dry season is nestled in the heart of the coastal Odisha Take Your Tour Some of the prominent Places ...
6million years ago, this ancient lake has many endemic species. The harsh environment of its brackish waters and the repeated salinity changes over the millennia, however, do not allow for a high biodiversity. The benthos is more varied than the plankton. The history of water-level changes ...
Lake Victoria has thousands of inflowing streams fromKenya, its most important water source. But it’s most recognized for its outflowing water, which feeds into the Nile River. The Nile exits the lake inUganda, making Lake Victoria the principal source for the longest stretch of the world’...
brackish water stages depending on the connection of the Baltic Sea with the world’s oceans. As the Baltic is one of the most polluted sea areas in the world, many studies have also focused on both the long-term trends in nutrients and productivity and the relatively recent anthropogenic ...
The largest Nile crocodile in the world could well be the legendary man-eater who stalks the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Burundi ©Gaston Piccinetti/Shutterstock.com How do Nile Crocodiles Compare with other Crocodiles? There are seventeen recognized species of crocodiles alive in the world tod...
9. Chilka Lake -Odisha It is the largest coastal lagoon in India and the second-largest lagoon in the world. Chilika Lake is the largest wintering ground for migratory birds, on the Indian subcontinent. It is a brackish water coastal lake. 10. Dal Lake – Jammu Kashmir Dal Lake is a ...
At a historic extent of 1,100 km3 it was once one of Earth’s largest lakes, but its area and volume have greatly diminished in the past ~20 y owing to diversion of inflowing water for irrigation, which accelerated evaporation, resulting in falling lake levels and destruction of a ...
The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands defines wetlands as “areas of marsh, fen, peat land or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including areas of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exc...
Extends from the southern limit of Utkal plains to Pulicat lake (Andhra Pradesh). It has large deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari rivers. (III) TAMIL NADU PLAINS Extends about 675 km, from the north of Chennai to Kanniyakumari in the south. ...
People knew this would lower the lake's level, but urban water supply had a higher value than the environment. By 1990, the shrinking Mono Lake had doubled in salinity and lost a number of freshwater habitats such as delta marshes and brackish lagoons that formerly provided lake-fringing ...