The Soviet government decided in the 1960s to divert those rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region surrounding the Sea in order to favor agriculture rather than supply the Aral Sea basin.

The Aral has nearly disappeared ... and wind erosion are destroying the glaciers the sea’s rivers rely on, according to a U.N. report. The remaining water is getting saltier and evaporating ...

Now there is no sea". The Aral Sea started to shrink in the 1960s when the Soviets diverted water from the two main rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea to feed vast new cotton fields. As cotton ...

The Aral Sea is drying out, one of the most severe ecological disasters caused by humans. The region has been devastated, but ...

Though cotton had been grown in Central Asia before, the scale and intensity of the Soviet plan were unique, and the Aral Sea's feeder rivers - Syr Darya and Amu Darya - were harnessed to provide ...

It is said that the Aral Sea disaster could be undone if the diverted rivers, which are irrigating cotton fields, were re-diverted. However, Uzbekistan doesn't have the money to do this ...

Pollution, climate change and its overuse are threatening the existence of one of the most unique stretches of water in the ...

Take the Aral Sea as an example In Uzbekistan, once the fourth largest lake in the World! But the rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were diverted to irrigate cotton fields. The cotton is for ...

The river inflow has been rapidly decreasing since 1960 ... The acceleration of the rate of water loss from the Aral Sea can be explained by the positive feedback between evaporation and Sea Surface ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. Having no outflow, the sea’s water level was maintained ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, a flat plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot summers and ...