April 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- It had been predicted that the Aral Sea would totally disappear by the year 2020. Now, against all the odds, it looks like environmental efforts have started the sea on ...

The shrinking of the Aral Sea -- once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water ... Central Asia: Can The Aral Sea Be Saved? June 16, 2003 02:00 CET By Charles Carlson Share ...

The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia 7 percent dustier in the last 30 years. Between 1984 and 2015, dust emissions from the growing desert almost doubled from 14 to 27 million tonnes.

Credit: Aral Sea via Shutterstock.com Many of us take water for granted. Many of us believe it will always be plentiful. Yet only 3 percent of water on our planet is fresh, and two-thirds of that ...

Central Asia’s Ticking Time Bomb: Water. October 30, 2024 • The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting.

Recent satellite imagery shows that the Aral Sea continues to disappear. How the Soviet Union Created Central Asia’s Worst Environmental Disaster – The Diplomat All Sections Search ...

Then, the Aral Sea covered 68,000 square kilometers (about 26,255 square miles) and housed 1,083 cubic km (about 260 cubic mi) of water. It was 426 km (about 265 mi) long, 284 km wide, and 68 ...

The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia 7% dustier in the last 30 years. Between 1984 and 2015, dust emissions from the growing desert almost doubled from 14 to 27 million tons.

A dirt road stretches through the desert that used to be the bed of the Aral Sea, on the outskirts of Muynak, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, June 27, 2023. Bayram is right.

The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake. Now much of it is a vast toxic desert straddling the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet states in central Asia.

The images from the Terra satellite feature the patches of water remaining in the disappearing Aral Sea, ... Soviet workers built 45 dams diverting the twin rivers of Central Asia’s “little ...

The Aral Sea is shrinking, ... Central Asia's Aral Sea has been starving ever since the two rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet irrigation projects in the surrounding desert region 50 ...