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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 shrinkage of the Aral continued and accelerated over time, and the receding waters briefly made Vozrozhdeniya the second-largest lake island in the world, at 2,300 km 2 (890 sq mi), [4] in the final days of its existence in mid-2001, becoming a peninsula when the South Aral Sea dried up enough that the island joined the mainland. [5]
EDITORS’ NOTE: This is the third piece in an AP series on the once-massive Aral Sea, the lives of those who’ve lived and worked on its shores, and the effects of climate change and restoration ...
English: Satellite images showing the changing water levels in the Aral Sea from 2000 to 2018. Français : Images satellites montrant l'évolution de la mer d'Aral de 2000 à 2008. Čeština: Satelitní snímky dokumentují změny objemu vody v Aralském jezeře v období let 2000 - 2018.
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 ...
The severely reduced inflow caused the water level in the Aral Sea to drop. While the North Aral Sea rose due to the Dike Kokaral, the South Aral Sea kept dropping, thus expanding the size of the desert, until 2010, when the South Aral Sea was partly reflooded. The water level of the South Aral Sea then began to drop again, this time more severely.
The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth biggest lake, is most likely gone forever, its death having brought about decades of environmental disaster. Preserving what remains of the Aral Sea Skip to ...