ARAL SEA
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLWHEN men first flew into space, they were moved by the deep blue of Earth's oceans; maybe they would be horrified at this satellite picture of a dying sea and the white desert replacing its retreating shores. Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan's Aral Sea has split into two and its larger portion has been judged doomed by many environmentalists who warn it may dry out completely by 2020. Because of intensive cotton irrigation from its feeder river the Amu Darya - condoned by the region's central Asian governments - the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake ...
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