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A salt harvester looks on as he scrapes with his shovel the salt covered crust of the bottom of Lake Retba, known as the Pink Lake, in Senegal on March 19, 2025. Under the delighted gaze of tourists and merchants, Senegal's most famous lake recently regained its iconic pink color, which had been dulled for three long years. The news of its return sparked excitement and a renewed socioeconomic life around one of the main attractions of this tourist country But in late 2022, rare and severe flooding hit the region, likely exacerbated by global warming, according to scientists interviewed by AFP at the time, disrupting the lake's ecological balance. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt/AFP Photo)
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