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Bookmark or Share- World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea - NASA Earth ObservatoryThe lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world. Although irrigation made the desert bloom, it devastated the Aral Sea. This series of images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite documents the changes.
- Shrinking Aral Sea - NASA Earth ObservatoryThe Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. But in the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted two major rivers to irrigate farmland, cutting off the inland sea from its source. The Aral Sea has been slowly disappearing ever since. These images show how the Aral Sea and its surrounding landscape has changed over the past few decades.
- Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea | AP NewsThe UN labels the destruction of the Aral Sea in Central Asia the most staggering disaster of the 20th century. The drying up of the once-mighty sea has affected residents and their livelihoods for decades. Some now say climate change presents their greatest obstacle yet. (AP Video by Victoria Milko and Ebrahim Noroozi.
- Aral Sea - WikipediaNorth: 42 m (138 ft) (2011) South: 29 m (95 ft) (2007) 53.4 m (175 ft) (1960) [3] The Aral Sea ( / ˈærəl / ARR-əl) [4] [a] was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s.
- Aral Sea summary | BritannicaAral Sea, Large salt lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It once covered some 26,300 sq mi (68,000 sq km) and was the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, but diversion of the waters of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers for irrigation has led to an overall reduction of its surface area by more than half since 1960.
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