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One of the World’s Biggest Lakes Has Disappeared—And the Aftermath Is Worse Than Expected
Once a shimmering 68,000-square-kilometer (26,000-square-mile) inland sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea ...
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Sins of the Aral Sea
This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...
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Water level is rising in Kazakhstan’s portion of Aral Sea
Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea began evaporating in the 1960s. Its disappearance is widely considered one of the worst man-made environmental disasters on record. The sea is ...
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Northern Aral Sea now has nearly 50pc more water
The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. For all latest news, follow The Daily ...
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Water volume in North Aral Sea increases by 42 pct
ALMATY, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The water volume in the northern part of the Aral Sea has risen by 42 percent, reaching 27 billion cubic meters, Kazakhstan's Kazinform News Agency reported on Monday.