The dried-up Aral Sea is now a post-apocalyptic playground

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By Liz CoreOct 1, 2014, 5:12 am89 pts
This week, NASA released a collection of satellite images that give us a vantage point on how much the Aral Sea has shrunk in the last 14 years. Clue: a whole lot. NASA Earth ObservatoryThe Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and now (right). The lake, once the fourth-largest in the world, has been zapped dry over the…

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