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The North Aral Sea Project's main initiative is the construction of a dam across the Berg Strait, a deep channel which connects the North Aral Sea to the South Aral Sea. The Kok-Aral Dam is 13 kilometres (8 miles) long and has capacity for over 29 cubic kilometres of water to be stored in the North Aral Sea, whilst allowing excess to overflow ...
The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan ...
The United Nations Development Program calls the destruction of the Aral Sea “the most staggering disaster of the 20th century.” It points to the Aral's demise as the cause of land degradation ...
Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. New cafes, clothing stores and bodegas boasting imported snacks have popped up. Reminders ...
Image of the Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014. The Aral Sea is an example of a collapsed ecosystem. [1] (image source: NASA)An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment.
The South Aral Sea was a lake in the basin of the former Aral Sea which formed in 1987 when that body divided in two, due to diversion of river inflow for agriculture.In 2003, the South Aral Sea itself split into eastern and western basins, the Eastern Sea and the West Aral Sea, connected by a narrow channel (channel bed at an elevation of 29 m (95 ft)) that balanced surface levels but did not ...
By 2006, the Aral Sea has separated into two separate bodies of water. In 2009, the right portion of the lake is virtually dry but makes a short-lived comeback in 2010 and 2011. The right half of ...
The North Aral Sea (Kazakh: Soltüstık Aral teñızı) is the portion of the former Aral Sea that is fed by the Syr Darya River. It split from the South Aral Sea in 1987–1988 [2] as water levels dropped due to river diversion for agriculture.