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Petoskey News-Review
April 25, 2018
And, according to National Geographic, the world's largest aquifers "are being drawn down at precipitous rates." The Aral Sea in Central Asia has vanished, Lake Turkana in Central Africa is vanishing, and right here in the heart of America, the Ogallala Aquifer, "the immense underground fresh water basinÃâà...
thenews.pl
April 20, 2018
... Kazakhstan series of photographs features banners hung from construction sites in the city of Almaty and depicting idealised images of the country's natural landscapes -- far removed from pictures often associated with Kazakhstan, such as a man-made desert at the exposed seabed of the Aral Sea or theÃâà...
BBC News
April 19, 2018
Sergey Sklyarenko said reintroduction started in a reserve on an island in the Aral Sea with fewer than 20 animals. "We have got to now about 4,000 kulans in three wild populations," he said. "The creation of a fourth population will allow to provide new areas for the species and increase its sustainability.".
OZY
April 5, 2018
The Cambodia scenario reminds Robert McLeman, an expert on environmental migration at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, of other places in the world where environmental stressors led to political upheaval: the drought-ravaged Lake Chad basin in West Africa, the shrinking Aral Sea inÃâà...
The Weather Channel
April 4, 2018
Now you are lucky to see anyone enjoying the lake." In 2017, a team of scientists from Utah State University published a study in Nature Geoscience analyzing the decline of saline lakes worldwide. While Walker Lake is not declining as quickly as some, including the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, which has lostÃâà...
National Geographic
April 2, 2018
Revered by ethnic Azeris as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan,” Lake Urmia was second only to the Caspian Sea as the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East, a haven for birds and bathers. Since the early 1970s nature and humanity have chipped away at this gem tucked in northwestern Iran,Ãâà...
Times of Central Asia
March 29, 2018
ASTANA (TCA) — On March 29, as part of his working trip to the Kyzylorda province, Kazakh Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev saw the development of local fish and food industry through the example of a fish processing plant in the city of Aralsk and Araltuz salt plant in the Aral Sea region, the officialÃâà...
Boing Boing
March 27, 2018
The Aral Sea is one of the worst human-authored environmental disasters in history. It used to be the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake, until the Soviet Union in the 1960s diverted its two main river-sources for cotton production. In three decades the sea shrank to barely 10% of its former size, splittingÃâà...
Business Line
March 22, 2018
More than half the world's wetlands have disappeared, while some of the world's major water bodies such as the Aral Sea, the Dead Sea, the Great Salt Lake and Lake Chad are disappearing at a faster pace. If the current patterns of consumption continue unabated, two-thirds of the world's population willÃâà...
Refinery29
March 22, 2018
Uzbekistan's answer to that particular problem was to divert the freshwater sources that fed into the Aral Sea in order to irrigate their cotton crops. The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth biggest lake but between the 1950s, when the practice began, and 1997, it had shrunk to 10% of its original size.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 20, 2018
The species, which takes its name from the striped pattern on their shells, is native to the drainage basins of the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. The highly invasive mussel has spread throughout Europe to southern Scandinavia and Britain, east into Eurasia and south to Turkey via shippingÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
“Forty Girls,” the earliest layers of which date to the sixth century B.C., revolves around Gulaim, a 15-year-old girl who rejects marriage and gathers around her 40 like-minded horsewomen on an island in the Aral Sea. That inland sea, in Karakalpakia, a remote desert region in the western part of what isÃâà...
Science Magazine
March 19, 2018
An ambitious restoration project is bringing back fish—and fishermen—to the North Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, National Geographic reports. The Aral Sea was once one of the world's largest freshwater lakes, supplying tens of thousands of tons of fish every year. But after the Soviet Union diverted away riversÃâà...
http://www.kazakh-tv.kz/
March 13, 2018
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan will start implementing joint environmental projects. One of the projects is aimed at preservation of the Aral Sea basin. For this purpose, scientists of the two countries established a special working group. They are planning a 5-year program and involvement of internationalÃâà...
Astana Times
March 10, 2018
Suvorova's “Sea Tomorrow” released in 2016 is a Kazakh-German documentary film portraying the life of people living near the Aral Sea, currently on the verge of disappearance, yet losing no hope to save the sea and prevent an environmental disaster. The film was screened at international film festivalsÃâà...
EURACTIV
March 9, 2018
Many have heard about the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth biggest lake which is most likely gone forever. Its death has brought about decades of environmental disaster. ... burden-sharing to overcome the Chernobyl legacy. Central Asia cannot afford another environmental disaster like the Aral Sea.
Caspian News
March 3, 2018
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan agreed on Thursday to launch a special working group that will work to restore the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth biggest lake but now shrunken to just a fraction of its original size. “We have agreed [to design] a joint roadmap that will allow us to find the most effective waysÃâà...
AzerNews
March 2, 2018
This was stated by Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan Yerik Utembayev during his visit to Karakalpakstan, Kazinform reported. “We have reached an agreement on joint actions to save the Aral Sea. Karakalpakstan has certain experience in the fight against desertification as well as good experienceÃâà...
Astana Times
February 21, 2018
To date, there are eight fish processing plants in the Aral Sea region, four of which have been built during the years of independence. The volume of fish catch has doubled in five years, volume of exports grew nine fold. Over the past five years, more than 1.3 trillion tenge (US$4 billion) of direct investmentÃâà...
RT
February 17, 2018
Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov has reminded his Instagram followers of the “catastrophic” desiccation of the Aral Sea, posting a space photo of what was one ... The Aral Sea (or the Sea of Islands), located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, has been steadily turning into a desert.
AzerNews
February 7, 2018
The development of the fourth Action Program to assist the countries of the Aral Sea basin has begun, the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported on February 7 citing Arslan Rejepov, Turkmenistan's representative at the Executive Committee of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS).
FRANCE 24
September 15, 2017
Straddling the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest saline lake in the world, an inland sea of 66,000 square kilometres. But in 1950, the Soviets diverted the two rivers that fed it in order to irrigate fields and grow cotton. Little by little, the Aral Sea dried up,Ãâà...
Duluth News Tribune
December 31, 1999
One of them, the Aral Sea (the words sea and lake are sometime interchangeable), has dropped completely off the list. Located in an arid region, the Aral Sea's inflowing rivers were diverted beginning in the 1960s for irrigation to increase the production of cotton. This produced a quick economic boom forÃâà...
Trend News Agency
December 31, 1999
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, April 24. By Huseyn Hasanov– Trend: In the last decade of August 2018, Ashgabat will host the summit of the founding countries of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), the Turkmenistan State News Agency reported. Turkmen President GurbangulyÃâà...
Times of Central Asia
December 31, 1999
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan's National Geographic Society, QazaqGeography, will organize a research expedition to the North and South Aral Sea area in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan from 10 to 30 May 2018, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. The trip will cover almostÃâà...
Discover Magazine
December 31, 1999
More than a decade ago, Discover reported on an $85 million project to restore what was formerly one of the world's biggest inland bodies of water: the Aral Sea. An oasis on the Silk Road trading route, the sea once covered more than 26,000 square miles across the heart of Central Asia, including parts of Kazakhstan andÃâà...
National Geographic
December 31, 1999
Once the world's fourth-largest freshwater lake, with an area of some 26,000 square miles, the Aral Sea became the victim of the Soviet Union's agricultural policies in the 1950s. Water from its two river sources—the Amu Darya and Syr Darya—was intentionally diverted for cotton cultivation. (See otherÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
December 31, 1999
Consulting the archives, we can find only five times that all five Central Asian presidents gathered with no other leaders in attendance: December 1991, January 1993, January 1998, April 1999, and April 2009 (though that last one was technically a summit on the Aral Sea). The presidents of Kazakhstan,Ãâà...
AzerNews
December 31, 1999
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan will create a joint workgroup for saving the Aral Sea, Kazakh Ambassador in Uzbekistan Yerik Utembayev said during his visit to Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), according to the Uzbek media. “We have reached an agreement on joint actions for saving the Aral Sea.
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