Arid Aral’s future sees the sea again
(Financial Times) - Located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth biggest lake, supporting flourishing fisheries and local agriculture. But it shrank to a third of its size after the Soviet Union launched an ambitious scheme to cultivate the central Asian steppe in the 1960s.
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