BBC6 年
Restoring life to the Aral Sea's dead zone
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 ...
National Geographic news3 年
Sins of the Aral Sea
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 ...