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The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland lake on Earth - Soviet planning reduced it to 10% of its size

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland lake in the world and supported thriving fishing communities across Central ...
ZME Science

The Aral Sea, Once the World’s Fourth-Largest Inland Lake, Was Drained Dry. Now It’s a Ticking Carbon Bomb

Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But ...
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Kyrgyz President calls on UN to establish fund to preserve Issyk-Kul

Speaking at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov highlighted the growing ...

In just decades, the world's fourth-largest lake vanished and became a 23,000-sq-mile desert. Now millions of shrubs are bringing hope back

The Aral Sea, once the worlds fourth-largest lake, dramatically shrank after Soviet irrigation diverted its rivers. Today, ...
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The USSR sacrificed an entire sea for cotton - and Central Asia is still paying the price

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland lake in the world, but today it has shrunk to roughly 10% of its original ...
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Beyond the disappearing lake: What the Aral Sea can teach us about human security

A water specialist overseas the reconstruction of the old water purification station in western Uzbekistan. Kostruba is a remote community in Karakalpakstan, 280 kilometres from the nearest city. Here ...
Cowboy State Daily

Could 'Toxic Soup' From Great Salt Lake Lakebed Dust Impact Southwest Wyoming?

Researchers warn that a "toxic soup" of dust from a shrinking Great Salt Lake could be reaching Wyoming, which is not specifically monitoring lake particles. “We’re causing the problem, but it could ...
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The dried bed of the Aral Sea has already released 748 million tons of CO2, and Spanish scientists want to refill it with water before another 605 million escape

The Aral Sea has long stood as a warning about what can happen when agriculture takes more water than a landscape can spare. Now scientists say the disaster between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan carries ...
National Observer

The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare — it’s a carbon bomb

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body ...
Indiatimes

The Aral Sea's disappearance became one of the world's greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die

In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Within a single human lifetime, most of it was gone. Soviet ...
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Drained Under Soviet Rule, Aral Sea Has Become a Huge Source of Emissions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abandoned boasts in dried-up Aral Sea. Arian Zwegers via Flickr The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once ...
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Aral Sea Drying Turns Carbon Sink Into Major Carbon Source

Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, turning a once-stable carbon reservoir into an active source of greenhouse gases, according to a ...