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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 largely dried up by the 2010s.
Aral tenʻizi) – bezodpływowe, reliktowe, słone jezioro w Kazachstanie i Uzbekistanie, które zniknęło wskutek ludzkiej działalności. W jego miejscu znajdują się obecnie trzy oddzielne zbiorniki: Jezioro Północnoaralskie, jezioro Barsakelmes, oraz Jezioro Południowoaralskie.
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.
See how a massive irrigation project in Central Asia has dried up the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, since the 1960s. Learn about the environmental and social impacts of the water diversion and the efforts to restore the lake.
15 lut 2021 · Dlaczego musiało zaniknąć? Jezioro Aralskie jeszcze w latach 60. ubiegłego wieku znajdowało się w czołówce największych śródlądowych zbiorników wodnych na Ziemi. Obecnie jest pustynią, utożsamianą z jedną z najpoważniejszych katastrof ekologicznych w historii ludzkości.
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.
7 mar 2023 · Learn about the Aral Sea, a former saline lake in Central Asia that shrank due to river diversion and irrigation. Find out its location, climate, formation, impact, and restoration strategies.
