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The Shrinking Aral Sea

By Guest PostApril 9, 2010Environmentaral sea, central asian states, cotton, ecology, fish population, fourth largest lake, kazakhstan, lake ecology, paddies, rice, salt-laden, shrinking aral sea, uzbekistan

The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water, although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact.

Once it was world’s ‘fourth’ largest lake. But now the lake has shrunk by 70 percent.

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The Shrinking Aral Sea