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Elden [556K]
3 years ago
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Why is the Aral Sea shrinking

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Alex_Xolod [135]3 years ago
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It was how fast it was disappearing. Once the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been losing water for half a century — ever since Soviet engineers began diverting the two rivers that sustain it, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, in order to grow cotton in the desert.

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