The impact of human activities on the Aral Sea is more significant than that of climate change. Overall, the increased upstream runoff, reduced water withdrawal, and rise in water delivery to the Aral Sea has led to a slowing down of the sea's notorious shrinkage. The findings provide a ...
Reading about the environment The Aral Sea咸 海 From the town of Muynak in Uzbekistan, there used to be a beautiful view of the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Se a. It was 426 kilometers long, 284kilometers wide and 68 meters deep. Until the 1980s, Muynak was a fishing...
Grassroots environmental groups often have a tough time making their mark in autocratic states. But in Central Asia, there are signs that civil society is finding its... Read More Culture, Travel & Sport Can the Aral Sea ever recover? And is the Caspian Sea climate change’s next victim...
This complex is located near the coast and has been eroded over time by several minor streams, especially the Salado River. In addition, there are strips of Paleozoic intrusions, such as the batholiths of the Quebrada del Castillo. The presence of several intrusive bodies and two significant ...
In the 1990s, after gaining independence, Uzbekistan changed their way of exploiting the land, but their new cotton policy contributed to the further shrinkage of the Aral Sea. At the same time, the top and bottom waters of the lake were not mixing well, which caused the salinity levels to...
These results implied that climate change, if any at least during the research period, has no significant effects on lake dynamics over the two sectors of the Aral Sea with anthropogenic disturbances. However, climate change and human activities may overlap to explain complex consequences in the ...
The decline of the Loulan Civilization was not a consequence of climate change but probably the result of a major man-made environmental disaster comparable to the recent Aral Sea crisis. The reviewed lake records24–38 (Figs 3 and 4) and the ice core record from the nearby Kunlun ...
The decline of the Loulan Civilization was not a consequence of climate change but probably the result of a major man-made environmental disaster comparable to the recent Aral Sea crisis. Figure 3: Comparison of climate inferences for the last 12,000 years based on lake records from Central ...
The North Aral Sea and the South Aral Sea. It no longer even makes the top ten list of theworld’s largest lakes. The South Aral Sea is divided further into two separate basins, east and west. Salinity in the southern basins is up to over 100 g/L, and has resulted in the death of...
Land use/cover change accelerate the warming trend, reduce the summer precipitation and alter the surface energy budget The desiccation of Aral Sea induces the most conspicuous influence in regional summer climate 1 Introduction Land surface processes form a dynamic boundary interface within the climate...