Why is the Aral Sea shrinking? The Aral Sea: Located in Central Asia, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. This freshwater feature was the center of a thriving fishing economy for generations, but now the lake is so dried up that it's actually divided into severa...
that stretched all the way to the horizon: that extended to the far off place where the sky meet the earthWhy is the Aral disappearing?It is becoming smaller and smaller because the water that used to flow into the sea has been turned away to irrigate the land created in the desert to...