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The World's Former Fourth-Largest Lake Is Now A Mostly Dried-Up Desert With Haunting Shipwrecks
Once a massive body of water, the only signs of its former glory are the eerie rusted ships that line what used to be a ...
The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but today the lake has all but dried. Images from NASA show how the lake has rapidly dried since 2000. "In the ...
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The Aral Sea Was Once The Third Largest Body Of Fresh Water, But Today It’s The Newest Desert In The World
Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...
Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...
The Aral Sea has been dying a long, slow death. This summer, another nail was driven into its coffin. Starting in the 1950s, when Soviet authorities began programs that diverted water from its ...
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