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Drying of Aral Sea
April 26 , 2024
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- The Aral Sea, the world’s fourth-largest lake until the early 1960s, has dried up.
- The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia dustier by 7 per cent over the past 30 years.
- The Aralkum Desert is now considered one of the most significant man-made sources of dust on earth.
- Between 1985 and 2015, dust emissions from the growing desert almost doubled from 14 to 27 million tonnes.
- The Aral was fed by the two great rivers of Central Asia — the Amu Darya (Oxus in Antiquity) and the Syr Darya (Jaxartes).
- Its basin was spread over seven Central Asia nations—Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Iran.
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