Aral SeaSoviet UnionCotton productionIrrigationHEC-HMSThe Aral Sea catastrophe profoundly worsened the socio-economic, environmental and health conditions of the local communities in Central Asia. This research paper is based on quantitative approach. The three indicators of climate change temperature, ...
An area twice the size of California was planted with cotton, rice, corn, fruit and vegetables, the desert bloomed, the population and its income rose, but the Aral Sea itself was starved of water from the rivers that used to flow into it. The environmental consequences were disastrous: ...
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 Aral Sea Disaster.The Aral Sea Disaster.CentralAsiaenvironmentaldegradationfishirrigationriverswaterThe Aral Sea is a huge terminal lake located among the deserts of Central Asia. Over the past 10 millennia, it has repeatedly filled and dried, owing both to natural and human forces. The most ...
The total sea volume was cut by 78% (5, 6). The vanishing of the sea constitutes an enormous ecological disaster that radically alters the environmental balance in the region: Vast deposits of salts, nitrates and pesticides spread in large quantities on the industrial crops upstream were formed...
The republic, in the northwest of Uzbekistan, is blighted by health and environmental problems resulting from intensive Soviet-era farming methods and the drying-up of the Aral Sea. FromReuters Karakalpakstan - situated on the shores of the Aral Sea, for decades an environmental disaster site -...
The Aral Sea disaster was caused by human mismanagement of a natural resource. In the beginning, the Soviet Union simply did not care, and the Aral Sea was one of many Soviet projects with the stated goal of taming nature. The nations that inherited this calamity are desperately poor, and ...
The Aral Sea disaster is only the most visible indicator of environmental decay, however. en.wikipedia.org The thing is as shallow as the Aral Sea. en.wikipedia.org The lake currently covers 16400 km2, but, like the Aral Sea, it is shrinking because of the diversion of water from the ri...
The Aral Sea environmental health crisis This article describes the destruction of the Aral sea, a man-made environmental disaster and the health problems associated with this disaster (waterborne... P Whish-Wilson - 《Journal of Rural & Tropical Public Health》 被引量: 59发表: 2002年 Global ...
The world's earliest Aral-Sea type disaster: the decline of the Loulan Kingdom in the Tarim Basin Remnants of cities and farmlands in China's hyperarid Tarim Basin indicate that environmental conditions were significantly wetter two millennia ago in a region which is barren desert today. Historic...