Adkhamjon Janobiddinov

The Shrinking Aral Sea: A Cascading Environmental Disaster

Situation Reports - Sep 09, 2024
The rapidly-disappearing Aral Sea as seen from space; cc European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery, modified, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desertification_and_land_degradation_in_the_Aral_Sea_Region.jpg

There is now desert where much of the world’s fourth-largest lake used to be, and the economic, health, and environmental consequences for peoples living near the lake are enormous.

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