a vital lifeline for the Aral Sea, to grow cotton in the desert. This decision had consequences you could see from space - a shrinking sea. DOSPANOV: (Through interpreter) People would wake up ...

October 28, 2024 • Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet ...

In the 1950s, the Soviet Union began diverting the rivers that fed the Aral Sea for cotton production, and over time, it dried out. Sixty years later, it has lost 90 percent of its volume ...

The water lies at the end of a sandy track that crosses a steppe that is as dry as it is flat ... DU MONDE "The same fate that befell the Aral Sea [which has nearly completely vanished] seems ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

He further said that his country is also intensifying efforts to preserve the Aral Sea, previously the world’s fourth-largest ...

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.

as the Northern Aral Sea. (SOUNDBITE OF BOAT ENGINE) KIPNIS: Out on the blue water, it's hard to imagine the sea was ever at risk of drying up. Wearing thick rubber gloves, fishermen grab breams ...