Ch...Ch...Ch...Changes

Cartographers struggle to map the changing landscape. Lake Chad, above, is 95 percent smaller than it was in 1963. Meanwhile, the marshlands of Mesopotamia, drained by Saddam Hussein, are beginning to make a comeback. Maps have always required revision, of course, but according to the editors of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World, natural features are changing at a much faster rate than in the past.

See a slideshow of examples at the New Scientist.