<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6fe43c33-5b5f-4492-a1ba-cd5017405e06/EF5BBA4B-56D4-4935-AA34-C348A22D1469/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Africaatlas-photos/index.html" href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Africaatlas-photos/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">news.nationalgeographic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Africaatlas-photos/index.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.nationalgeographic.com/img/FE349637-1E6A-43C0-A580-9AE080B62A2D" alt="PHOTOS THEN & NOW: Africa Satellite Images Show Stark Changes" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Africaatlas-photos/index.html"><DIV>Satellite images from 1972 (left) and 2007 (right) show water-level decline in Lake Chad, once the world's sixth largest.</DIV><BR /><DIV>At the junction of <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_nigeria.html ">Nigeria</A>, <A href=" http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_niger.html">Niger</A>, <A href=" http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_chad.html">Chad</A>, and <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_cameroon.html">Cameroon</A>, the lake is now one-tenth its former size, due to declining rainfall and diversion of water for human use.</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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