The Aral Desert: Once a Sea - Now, All Dried Up

ENN
Oct 27, 2014, 11:42 am38 pts
The Aral Sea is a well known environmental disaster zone. But this year, it got a whole worse, writes Anson Mackay, as its biggest basin dried up completely to expose a toxic, salty wasteland. With continuing irrigation and declining river flows due to climate change, the desert is only set to expand. The Aral…

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