Aral: The Lost Sea

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2014
Once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water but now a byword for ecological disaster, the Aral Sea has been retreating over the last half-century after rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton irrigation projects. Today it covers half of its original area of 66,000 square kilometres, and the volume of wa...
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