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Celebrating the first World Lake Day 

Today – 27th August – is the first World Lake Day, designated last year by the United Nations General Assembly to raise awareness of the importance of lakes, and the need to ‘preserve, conserve, restore and sustainably manage lakes and related ecosystems’. Discover just how vital these ecosystems are to life as we know it on Earth, and some of our work at PML using satellite data to monitor and protect them.