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The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world. Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)on NASA’s Terrasatellite documents the changes. At the start of the series in 2000, the lake was already a ...
1 cze 2023 · Divided between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea is a salty basin of oceanic origin that originated, like the Caspian and Black Seas, 5 million years ago from the separation of the ancient Parateid, an oceanic basin dating back to the Jurassic period.
23 wrz 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.
The Aral Sea – the world's fourth-largest inland water body in the 20th century – spanned an impressive 68,000 sq. km. The rivers feeding the lake also supplied water to neighbouring towns, thus laying the foundation for the historic Silk Route. Original photos of past port cities of the sea. REGIONAL ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT.
30 kwi 2024 · The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world, located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. It was fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, making it a vital source of water for surrounding communities.
7 mar 2023 · Aral Sea. The Aral Sea, also known as Orol Dengizi (Uzbek) or Aral Tengizi (Kazakh) is a saline lake in Central Asia straddling the boundary between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the south and north. The lake once covered 68,000 square kilometers between the Kyzylorda and Aktobe regions in Kazakhstan and the Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan.
The Aral Sea, what once was the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, and now more aptly dubbed Aralkum, is in Central Asia, divided between Northern Uzbekistan and Southern Kazakhstan. Overview
