Aral Sea - Wikipedia
Formerly the third-largest lake in the world with an area of 68,000 km 2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation …
Aral Sea | Description, History, Map, Shrinking, & Facts | Britannica
2024年12月13日 · Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its …
How the Soviet Union Created Central Asia’s Worst …
2014年10月3日 · Vozrozhdeniye Island, an island in the middle of the Aral Sea, was a Soviet biological weapons testing site for almost 40 years. NASA explains the processes that led to …
World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea - NASA Earth Observatory
A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of …
Explainer: What Happened to the Aral Sea? | Earth.Org
2024年5月16日 · In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began diverging the Aral Sea’s main inflowing rivers – the Amu Darya originating from the Pamir Mountains and the Syr Darya from the Tien …
The Aral Sea Crisis - Columbia University
By establishing a program to promote agriculture and especially that of cotton, Soviet government led by Khrouchtchev in the 1950s deliberately deprived the Aral Sea of its two main sources of …
HISTORY | Project Amu Darya
The Soviet and post-Soviet mismanagement of the Amu Darya has played the leading role in the contemporary Aral Sea Crisis, during which the Aral Sea shrunk by 90%, and its seafloor …
Aral Sea - ArcGIS StoryMaps
2024年12月8日 · From 2000 to 2018, the Aral Sea experienced drastic shrinkage, losing approximately 75% of its water volume due to Soviet-era irrigation projects. This ecological …
The Aral Sea: A Story of Devastation and Partial Recovery of a …
2020年5月12日 · Approximately the last 10 millennia (corresponding with the Holocene Epoch) constitute the modern geological history of the Aral Sea (Micklin 2014a). Soviet scientists …
NASA SVS | Shrinking Aral Sea
2013年10月17日 · In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The lake they made, the Aral …