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 Stories About: Aral Sea AND Asia AND food and agriculture
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23 Jul 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Seasick Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, Central Asia's Aral Sea is drying up rapidly and is likely to all but disappear in as few as 15 years, according to a new study by Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. Since the 1960s, the sea has been depleted by the damming of the main rivers that feed it; it is now just a quarter of the size it was a half-century ago and has broken into two parts, the No ... |
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| Topics: Aral Sea, Asia, food and agriculture (all these topics) |
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