Aral Sea - Wikipedia
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 had largely dried up by the 2010s.
One of the world's largest inland lakes has dried up from Soviet …
2024年10月26日 · Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: It's been...
Once-massive lake dries up to almost nothing | CNN
2014年9月30日 · The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake. Now much of it is a vast toxic desert straddling the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet states in central Asia.
World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea - NASA Earth Observatory
As the Aral Sea has dried up, fisheries and the communities that depended on them collapsed. The increasingly salty water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides. The blowing dust from the exposed lakebed, contaminated with agricultural chemicals, became a public health hazard.
What is the dried out Russian lake? - Geographic FAQ Hub
2024年6月26日 · The dried out Russian lake referred to in this article is the Aral Sea. It was an endorheic lake located between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south. The Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s due to unsustainable cotton cultivation and …
How the Soviet Union destroyed the fourth biggest lake in the ... - Gizmodo
2014年10月1日 · NASA has published these two images of the Aral Sea, which used to be the fourth biggest lake in the world before the Soviet Union plugged into the rivers that fed it to irrigate massive ...
What lake in Russia dried up? - Geographic FAQ Hub: Answers to …
2024年6月27日 · The Aral Sea in Russia is the lake that has dried up. Which Russian lake turned to desert? The Aral Sea, formerly the fourth-largest lake in the world, turned into a desert after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects.
The Aral Sea was once the 4th-largest lake in the world. Now …
2016年9月2日 · As the lake dried up, fisheries and the communities that depended on them collapsed. The increasingly salty water became polluted with fertilizer and pesticides. Blowing, salty dust from the...
How the Soviet Union Created Central Asia’s Worst …
2014年10月3日 · As the Aral Sea dried up, it split into two discrete lakes: the northern Aral Sea and the Southern Aral Sea. The Kazakh dam isolated the two waters physically, leaving the Uzbek-facing Southern...
See How a Siberian Lake Has Almost Disappeared
2014年9月30日 · New photos from NASA show that a lake in Siberia has almost disappeared since 2000, thanks to a Soviet water diversion program from the 1960s. The Aral Sea, in Uzbekistan, was once the fourth...