Milwaukee reflects the grandeur of the lake region's past as well as its decline and the quest to rebuild.
But the much-maligned family vacation area (boosters now refer to it as the Pocono Mountains, the Lake Region or simply Northeast Pennsylvania) has seen its share of gentrification over the past few years.
The greater Salt Lake region had up to 130 micrograms of soot per cubic meter on Wednesday, or more than three times the federal clean-air limit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has singled out the greater Salt Lake region as having the nation's worst air for much of January, when an icy fog smothers mountain valleys for days or weeks at a time and traps lung-busting soot.
The breathtaking shark-tooth vista of the Wasatch mountains stretching as far as the eye can see is a reminder that the Salt Lake region is a proper winter wonderland, half an hour's drive from many of the best ski resorts in the world.
One large chunk was discovered in a lake in the Chelyabinsk region, RIA Novosti cited the Chelyabinsk governor as saying.
Lake Chad, like Darfur Lake, is in the Sahel region where rainfall has been increasing since the 1980s.
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Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said the family was on a camping holiday on the edge of Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie region.
Lake said it's clear the region is on the threshold of a crisis and that now is the last chance to act.
The massive lake, a focal point of the Saguenay region, is so large that it feels more like an ocean.
Before the 1960s Imja was a glacier, but a recent temperature increase in the Himalayan region melted it into a substantial lake, which glistens under the shadow of the awe-inspiring Everest range.
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But then Irish oil giant Tullow discovered over 2 million barrels under the waters of Lake Albert, Uganda, in 2009, and the region suddenly shot into the limelight.
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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the 2003 Convention, Chinese National Academy of Arts (China National Center for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage), International Training Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the Auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP), Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Hangzhou Municipal Government are planning to co-organize the West Lake Expo on Traditional Craftsmanship in the Asia-Pacific Region from 17 to 21 October 2013 in Hangzhou, China.
Consider the history of Lake Chad as an ecample of the desertification problem in the region.
She and her husband lived in Trumbull, Connecticut, and "enjoy traveling and spending time at our lake home" in upstate New York's Finger Lakes region.
The 1, 700km Winnipeg-Churchill line heads north from the Manitoba capital, easing through lake-studded woodland tundra towards the remote, sub-arctic northern region.
"The birds are preying on the fish in ditches and small pools northeast of the lake, " said Dale Hall, acting regional director for the Southeastern Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Ugandan meteorologist Khalid Muwembe says the lake, which lies on the Equator, has a distinct effect on the region's weather.
Interestingly, rainfall patterns in the Sahel region, an arid landscape just south of the Sahara Desert where Darfur Lake is located, mirror global temperature patterns.
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The region contains a number of lakes, mires, meadows, swamp and lake complexes with peculiar flora and fauna, including a number of rare and endangered species.
Two huge hydro-electric power schemes, on Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique and in the Lesotho mountains, which will zap electricity across the region, are also being built.
Traditionalists point out that the Big Bird has been tied to the region ever since William Boeing built his first aircraft in his boathouse on a Seattle lake in 1916.
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