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A boat is stranded on the grass-covered riverbed of the Poyang Lake hit by drought, in Duchang county, Jiujiang city, Jiangxi province, China on April 17, 2018. Poyang Lake in Jiangxi Province, once the largest freshwater lake in China, is fast drying-up and might soon become a prairie or a desert like the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan due mostly to human ignorance. Chinese scientists are reporting with alarm that more parts of Poyang Lake have dried up leaving huge swathes of grassland in areas once inundated by up to 25 meters of water. That depth has been reduced on average to only eight meters and even this level is in danger since water levels have fallen continuously. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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