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The Aral Sea (/ ˈ ær əl /) [5] [a] was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up by the 2010s.
2 lis 2024 · Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of inflowing water for irrigation beginning in the second half of the 20th century.
21 mar 2024 · A once 40-meter-deep freshwater body, sustaining a robust fishing industry and a lifeline for communities living its shores, the Aral Sea has now disintegrated into two distinct bodies of water, leaving abandoned port cities stranded amidst rusting ship relics.
16 maj 2024 · The stark reality is that the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world with an area of 68,000 square kilometres (approx. 26,300 square miles), has transformed into the expanses of the Aralkum Desert that emerged in its place.
A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea.
6 maj 2024 · The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has dried up due to irrigation and climate change. Scientists from Japan and Uzbekistan are working to find sustainable solutions for agriculture and water management in the region.
The Aral Sea crisis is one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in the history of the modern world. The Aral Sea area, located in Central Asia, was once the fourth largest inland sea in the world.
