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The Aral Sea is gradually disappearing
The Aral Sea was once one of the largest lakes in the world. As long as the human factor did not play a trick on him, from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya regularly taken water to irrigate the surrounding fields, from which the water level in the Aral Sea has consistently decreased. I propose to compare the pictures of the lake from space, made in 2000 and 2014 machine NASA Terra. Line marked on them the approximate boundaries of the Aral Sea in 1960. The result is not happy ...
