Declining Aral Sea
- Filed under: Horse Racing News, Horse Racing Results, Horse Racing Tips
- Date: Jul 11,2009
New Envisat images released by the European Space Agency (ESA) highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea’s shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea in Central Asia was once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, but it has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation projects. This animation shows the shrinkage from 2006 to 2009 . The whitish area is white salt terrain (the Aral Karakum desert) left be
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