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href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 1, 2010 SatNews PublishersIn the grasslands of western Kazakhstan, roughly 320 kilometers (200 miles) north-northeast of the Aral Sea, lies Chiyli Crater. From the perspective of a ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 10, 2010 Trading Markets (press release)The project centers on the Surgil gas field near the Aral Sea, where Kogas will help build and operate a chemical plant to secure gas in the region. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 8, 2010 Oil & Gas JournalThe AKD01 (Doris) discovery well is on the Akkulka block in the North Ustyurt basin off the northwest edge of the Aral Sea and is the first oil discovery in ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 21, 2010 Rufus on Fire (blog)ACIE LAW called me and my agent when we were on vacation at THE ARAL SEA and told me LADY GAGA had bought the team, and I was skeptical. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 9, 2010 Energy Intelligence (subscription)Kazakhstan-focused Tethys Petroleum has enjoyed further success at its first deep well on the Akkulka Block near the Aral Sea. The company reported oil flow ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 6, 2010 Media Newswire (press release)The environmental security of OSCE States also remained an important challenge, with the Aral Sea tragedy being one of the most critical problems in that ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 22, 2010 OnEarth MagazineHe had been reporting on the deterioration of the Aral Sea -- including the govenment's responsibilty for the ecological disaster. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 3, 2010 Spero NewsThe Uzbek prime minister said Central Asia is already facing environmental problems in the aftermath of what he called the Aral Sea "catastrophe. ... BEFORE-AND-AFTER PHOTOS: Vast Aral Sea Vanishing - 05 Aug 2009 National GeographicFrom 2006 through 2009, Central Asia's vast Aral Sea dramatically retreated, with its eastern section losing about 80 percent of its water in just four (Belated) book review: Chasing the Sea - 05 Aug 2009 Neweurasia.netIncluding Descriptions of LIfe Therein, Culminating with an Arrival at the Aral Sea, the World's Worst Man-Made Ecological Catastrophe, in One Volume, 世界資æº?çœŸç›¸å’Œä½ æƒ³çš„ä¸?一樣 - 05 Aug 2009 中時電子報...é?ŽåŽ»æ›¾æ˜¯ä¸–界第四大內陸湖，橫跨哈薩克與çƒ?茲別克兩個國家的鹹海（Aral Sea），ç?¾åœ¨çš„é?¢ç©?與1960年代相比，å?ªå‰©ç•¶æ™‚çš„å››åˆ†ä¹‹ä¸€ã€‚å› ç‚ºé€±é‚Šåœ°å?€çš„è¾²æ¥é–‹ç™¼ï¼Œä¸?斷截æµ?ã€? Time-Series Photos From Space of Aral Sea Death - Jul 13, 2009 Wired NewsThe destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs Eastern Aral Sea has shrunk by 80% since 2006: ESA - Jul 10, 2009 AFPPARIS (AFP) — The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Declining Aral Sea: Satellite Images Highlight Dramatic Retreat - Jul 11, 2009 Science Daily (press release)ScienceDaily (July 12, 2009) — New Envisat images highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea's shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea was once the Disappearing Aral Sea: Earth Image of the Week - Jul 16, 2009 Earthweek - A Diary of the PlanetThe few areas of water left in the Aral Sea are only a tiny portion of what used to be a huge inland body of salt water, teeming with fish. While You Were Sleeping - Jul 31, 2009 ChronogramThe Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has been reduced to a tenth of its former size. Turkmen “Golden Lakeâ€? May Prove Green Disaster - Aug 1, 2009 ГундогарFinally, as with the Aral Sea which lies north and east of the lake, areas around the expanse of water will dry and quickly turn into a dustbowl, Aral Sea blues, Bat cave emptied, and more - Jul 15, 2009 New ScientistOnce the world's fourth largest inland body of water, irrigation shrank the Aral Sea dramatically, and by 2000, had split it into three parts. Ars Electronica 2009: An Exciting Dialog at the Interface of Art ... - Jul 25, 2009 Art DailyIn 1960, the Aral Sea had an area of 68000 km2 and its surface elevation was 53.4 meters above sea level. It has since shrunk to under 27000 km2, Guest commentary: Climate change is no reason to tax energy - Jul 18, 2009 Naples Daily NewsIt implies that the drying Aral Sea and the diminishing snow on Kilimanjaro is evidence of global warming, which is totally false. Turkmenistan to create desert sea - Jul 16, 2009 BBC NewsDrought and overuse have caused ecological disasters like that of the Aral Sea to the north, which has shrunk by 90% in recent decades. Six Picks: Recommendations from the Monitor's staff - Aug 3, 2009 Christian Science MonitorWhen was the last time you imagined yourself traveling to Central Asia to investigate whatever happened to the Aral Sea and the people who depend on it? Weekend Briefing - Jul 10, 2009 Mother Nature Network...(Source: Associated Press) ARAL VIEW: The Aral Sea has been described as the most dire manmade environmental disaster in history, and it's apparently still Uzbekistan's stance on water use reviewed in Paris - Jul 23, 2009 Times of Central Asia (subscription)They were told about environmental situation in the basin of the Aral Sea and actions taken by the Government of Uzbekistan to improve socio-economic What Would Borat Do? - Jul 22, 2009 Contrarian ProfitsThe Aral Sea, site of one of the greatest environmental disasters ever, is in Kazakhstan. A century ago, carp, perch, caviar-bloated sturgeon and much more Turkmenistan tries to green its desert with manmade lake - Jul 17, 2009 guardian.co.ukThe Aral Sea, which once lay on the border between the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was the world's fourth-largest lake. Letter of the day - Jul 21, 2009 Winnipeg SunIrrigation has turned the Aral Sea into Earth's largest ecological disaster. It has gone from being Earth's fourth largest freshwater lake to eighth, Call It What You Will - Jul 30, 2009 Wall Street Journal...long before, the region was called Transcaspia, a name that shakily captured its position “east of the Caspian and south of the Aral Sea. UNRCCA to help CA states cope with problem - Jul 12, 2009 Times of Central Asia (subscription)...to implementation of agreements reached during the Central Asian summit on the Aral Sea problems that was held in Almaty, Kazakhstan in the past spring. 1989-2009: Bewegte Welt - Erzählte Zeit - Aug 2, 2009 Actuphoto.com...the illegal mines of Ukraine, Viktor An's 1989 photographs of the ecological catastrophe in the Aral Sea reiterate the origin of some of these problems. Much of Kazakhstan dwells in the past, but its new capital is a ... - Jul 29, 2009 Vancouver SunWater drained from a shrinking Aral Sea fed expanding cotton fields, while nuclear weapons were tested on the steppe in northeast Kazakhstan near the town Out of Steppe - Jul 16, 2009 United Press International, AsiaDaniel Metcalfe sets out to visit some of the lesser-known endangered peoples of Asia: the Karalkapaks of the shrinking Aral Sea, the Jews of Bukhara, You're getting warmer - Jul 11, 2009 Sunday's ZamanDo you really want your own toxic wastelands like Love Canal, the Aral Sea, the Danube Basin? Can you not see your great cities already choking to death on New Lease of Life For Inland Asian Fisheries - Jul 30, 2009 TheFishSite.comThree distinct groupings emerge: the Kazakh "fisher brigades" based on the North Aral Sea, the "community" fishers of Kyrgyz Republic and the pond Coordination meeting to take place following results of summit of ... - Jul 15, 2009 Gazeta.KZThe meeting participants will discuss regional environmental problems and water resources management issues in the Aral Sea. Soviet Pesticides Leave Bitter Legacy in Uzbekistan - Jul 20, 2009 Environment News ServiceIn 2006, two local non-government groups, Women for Stable Development and the Save the Aral Sea and Amu Darya Alliance, published a report highlighting Golden Age Lake of Turkmenistan dubbed an ecological disaster - Jul 20, 2009 Mother Nature NetworkFor example, the Aral Sea, which was diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects, has shrunk 80 percent from its previous size as the world's Gulnara Karimova: Uzbek Oligarch, Pop Musician, UN Representative - Jul 17, 2009 The AwlFor those of you trying to place Uzbekistan, its northern border bisects the shrinking Aral Sea, with its southern border meeting Afghanistan (the UNRCCA hosts meeting on management of water resources in Central Asia - Jul 15, 2009 Times of Central Asia (subscription)...the meeting is expected to bring together representatives of member nations of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS), the IFAS Executive 土库曼斯å?¦å¥‡æƒ³ï¼šå¤§æ¼ 出平湖 沙海å?˜ç»¿æ´² - Jul 21, 2009 网易...咸海曾ç»?ä½?于å‰?è‹?è?”åŠ ç›Ÿå…±å’Œå›½å“ˆè?¨å…‹æ–¯å?¦å’Œä¹Œå…¹åˆ«å…‹æ–¯å?¦çš„交界处，为世界第四大湖（Aral Seaï¼‰ã€‚å› äººä¸ºæ´»åŠ¨ç¼©å°?了90%，水ä¸å?«ç›?é‡?上å?‡å¯¼è‡´å½“地渔业é?å?—致命打击。 アラル海ã€?3å¹´ã?§8割縮å°? ã?‹ã‚“ã?Œã?„システム導入ã?§ - Jul 10, 2009 AFPBB News...(c)AFP/ESA ã€?7月11æ—¥ AFP】 欧州宇宙機関（European Space Agencyã€?ESA)ã?¯10æ—¥ã€? カザフスタンã?®ã‚¢ãƒ©ãƒ«æµ·ï¼ˆAral Sea）ã?®æµ·å²¸ç·šã?ŒåŠ‡çš„ã?«å¾Œé€€ã?—ã?¦ã?„ã‚‹ã?“ã?¨ã‚’明らã?‹ã?« 昔日美丽大湖å?³å°†æ¶ˆå¤±å’¸æµ·éš?退 - Jul 28, 2009 中华网...咸海的英文å??å—“Aral Seaâ€?å?¯ä»¥å¤§è‡´ç¿»è¯‘æˆ?“岛之海â€?ï¼Œå› ä¸ºå®ƒæ›¾ç»?在一公顷的范围内有过1500个岛。 就是这么一个美丽ã€?富饶的大湖，从上世纪60年代起å?´èµ°ä¸Šäº†è¿…速è?Žç¼©çš„凶 过度å?–水截æ–径æµ?æ?¥æº? 昔日世界第四大湖咸海将消亡 - Jul 25, 2009 凤凰网...咸海的英文å??å—“Aral Seaâ€?å?¯ä»¥å¤§è‡´ç¿»è¯‘æˆ?“岛之海â€?ï¼Œå› ä¸ºå®ƒæ›¾ç»?在一公顷的范围内有过1500个岛。 就是这么一个美丽ã€?富饶的大湖，从上世纪60年代起å?´èµ°ä¸Šäº†è¿…速è?Žç¼©çš„凶 昔日世界第四大湖行將消亡：鹹海隱退進行時 - Jul 26, 2009 國際在綫...鹹海的英文å??å—“Aral Seaâ€?å?¯ä»¥å¤§è‡´ç¿»è¯æˆ?“島之海â€?ï¼Œå› ç‚ºå®ƒæ›¾ç¶“åœ¨ä¸€å…¬é ƒçš„ç¯„åœ?內有é?Ž1500個島。 就是這麼一個美麗ã€?富饒的大湖，從上世紀60年代起å?»èµ°ä¸Šäº†è¿…速è?Žç¸®çš„å…‡ Dá»± án biển hồ lá»›n nhất thế giá»›i?! - Jul 19, 2009 24 giờ...nguồn nÆ°á»›c trong nhiá»?u tháºp ká»· qua khiến lượng nÆ°á»›c trong biển hồ tá»± nhiên Aral Sea ở phÃa bắc Trung Ã? đã bị giảm khoảng 90 phần trăm so vá»›i trÆ°á»›c đây. Here's Looking @ Earth... Clouds Of An Unusual Nature - 25 Mar 2009 SatNews PublishersDistinctive lines of clouds stretch out from the shore of the Aral Sea (located in Central Asia between Kazakhstan and Karakalpakstan) in this photo-like Japan to give US$ 66 thousand to help save the Aral Sea area - Mar 17, 2009 Times of Central Asia (subscription)344 thousand to the International Foundation of Aral, a project that aims to create a tree-planting zone on the dried bottom of Aral sea. Environment Rant - Mar 19, 2009 Registan.netThat being said, the Aral Sea did come up, and I thought it might not be totally irrelevant to the readers of Registan. PS - my bump of trouble is itching. Who wants to read about Lake Balkhash? - Mar 2, 2009 Registan.netLake Balkhash lies in Central Asia, and is the largest body of water after the Caspian Sea, recently earning this status with the demise of the Aral Sea. Living To Be 100 In An Ecological Disaster Zone - Mar 6, 2009 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyBoth areas have been devastated by the desiccation of the Aral Sea, which has produced alkaline soil and high levels of salt in the air. Can 'Wet' Countries Export Water To 'Dry' Ones? - Mar 21, 2009 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyOne recurring proposal is to build a 2000 kilometer canal to send water from the Ob River in Siberia to the Aral Sea basin in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Agriculture Minister takes part in 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul - Mar 20, 2009 KazinformThe Minister of Agriculture will talk about the problem of use of trans-border water sources and the program of the Aral Sea rescue, Kazinform refers to the Analysis: International rivers and energy a volatile mix - Mar 19, 2009 United Press International (subscription)...through Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan before emptying into the desiccated Aral Sea, global poster child for water mismanagement since the 1960s. Water forum seeks way through worsening crisis - Mar 15, 2009 AFPThey include the desiccation of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest inland lake, by Soviet-era plans to grow cotton in the central Asian desert. New IBA directories for Central Asia - Mar 9, 2009 BirdLife InternationalUzSPB is working with UNDP, to assist with the management of a Protected Area in the Aral Sea region. The foundation of UzSPB was a milestone not only for If the Royals Were Nations: The Pitchers - Mar 11, 2009 Royals Review...if Ho-Ram is Kyrgyzstan (which actually looks cool as hell, oh well, let's keep it) then that would make Robinson Tejeda... what's left of the Aral Sea. WATER SECURITY INITIATIVE ANNOUNCED FOR ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: 16/03 ... - Mar 16, 2009 MaximsNews NetworkThe Aral Sea , an ecological disaster of unprecedented proportions, continues to shrink as climate change is now threatening its glacial sources. Designed for 3 Years, ’workhorse’ Satellite Completes 25 - Mar 5, 2009 Spatial News (press release)From Chernobyl, the drying of Asia's Aral Sea, Red River flooding in North Dakota, the effects of Hurricane Katrina, Landsat 5 was collecting observations When it is organic food in name only... - Mar 14, 2009 Yorkshire Post...the toxic Aral Sea and the Kazakh attitude to pesticides are considered, there is very little chance of any organic cereals coming from that country. No secure future for CA without solution of УAfghan problemФ Ц ... - Mar 3, 2009 KazinformУWe have considered such important directions as, first of all, the situation with water resources, energy, and environment including the Aral Sea problem. NASA MODIS Image of the Day: March 19, 2009 - Clouds over the Aral Sea - Mar 19, 2009 Space Ref (press release)Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. RADWIN empowers service providers so they UZBEKISTAN: GAZPROM PROBE OF ARAL SEA COMES UP MAINLY DRY SO FAR - Jan 26, 2009 EurasiaNet,A subsidiary of the Russian energy giant Gazprom has lost $215 million dollars looking for hydrocarbon deposits on the "swampy" remains of the Aral Sea, WATER: A Preview of the Science Museum's New Exhibit - Feb 19, 2009 KARE,A dramatic example of that is the Aral sea in Uzbekistan. "That sea has shrunk dramatically over the last thirty years." The Colorado River in the southwest *** Lukoil ends geological exploration on Aral project - Feb 12, 2009 TREND Information,At the same time, seismic research in the eastern part of the Aral Sea to drill on prospective structures will continue. Production Share Agreement (PSA) on Uzbek Leader Focuses on Afghan Security During Russian ... - Jan 26, 2009 Journal of Turkish Weekly,Those who have once been there and seen all this [the shrinking of the Aral Sea], will never forget this. Changes are already occurring at a genetic level. Mountains of Heaven - Helsinki to Beijing - Feb 3, 2009 Easier (press release),Overland across Russia, bound for the steppes of Kazakhstan and the Aral Sea before entering the wild ranges of the Tian Shan’s - the 'Mountains of Heaven'. Many political conflicts stem from undue population pressure on ... - Feb 15, 2009 Grist Magazine,In the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia, there is an uneasy arrangement among five countries over the sharing of the two rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Illegal hunting of bustards by foreign vips reported - Feb 1, 2009 Pakistan Dawn,Houbara bustards breed in Central Asian region, particularly in Kyzl Kum east of the Aral Sea, and migrate southwards in winter to Pakistan, crossing the Europe's twisted pipedreams - Feb 14, 2009 The National,...the power crisis could lead to severe water shortages this summer for downstream neighbours along the Amu Dharya river, which flows into the Aral Sea. Why population still matters - Feb 17, 2009 People & the Planet,In the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia, there is an uneasy arrangement among five countries over the sharing of the two rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr A World Without Water - Feb 16, 2009 The Nation.,We see it in almost every ecosystem: the Everglades, the Aral Sea, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the Yellow River, the Colorado River. The fight for water in North America - Feb 12, 2009 BBC News,..."People say there's plenty of water here - but that's what they said about the Aral Sea in Russia." Chicago already diverts 2bn gallons (7.5bn litres) of Water exhibit teaches importance of protecting the Minnesota River - Feb 5, 2009 Jordan Independent,...how people in Chili use a special fabric to collect water vapor and the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea in order to grow water-thirsty cotton. Water - another global 'crisis'? - Feb 2, 2009 BBC News,..."The Aral Sea and Lake Chad have shrunk because the rivers that feed them have been largely dried out; and you can see it on a smaller scale as well, Siberian Dam Threatens to Destroy a Culture - Feb 11, 2009 The Moscow Times,The Aral Sea that once straddled Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is now a series of ponds after river water was diverted for cotton irrigation, and damming along Google Earth 5.0 Adds Oceans, Mars, and Time Travel - Feb 4, 2009 TidBITSEarth tours for download including a Jimmy Buffett concert tour, and a tour exploring the shrinking of the Aral Sea in Central Asia since the 1960s. 'Water' at Science Museum on Friday - Jan 29, 2009 Minneapolis Star Tribune,It has taken a mere 20 years for the Aral Sea to lose 75 percent of its volume, literally sucked dry by the cotton fields planted around it. MSPs criticise ‘catastrophe’ report - Feb 1, 2009 The Herald,Myanmar and Louisiana, by the idle fishermen of the shrinking Aral Sea and the respiratory casualties of numerous air polluted cities. Tashkent Wants Moscow to Pressure Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on Water - Jan 30, 2009 Georgiandaily,That in turn means the growing needs of Uzbekistan for water will not be met, an outcome that will both help to kill off the Aral Sea and reorder the Four Myths About the Weather - Feb 1, 2009 History News Network,In their audacity, such schemes remind me of Soviet era efforts to warm Siberia by damming the Ob River and irrigating the Aral Sea basin. Uzbek Seismic Completed - Feb 10, 2009 Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (subscription),Russia's PetroAlliance has completed seismic work for an international consortium set up to explore the Uzbek sector of the inland Aral Sea, the Prime-Tass Inflation may be down, but food prices will rise again - Feb 12, 2009 MSN Money UK,Water depletion, whether from dwindling lakes like the Aral Sea in the former Soviet Union, or the fossil aquifers of Saudi Arabia, Australia and North Czech president says global warming is a Gore fallacy - Feb 1, 2009 Argentina Star,He would have to tell us why he lied about the true reason the Aral Sea dried up. This guy has always been a liar. When he told stories during his RE: Motivations behind Passionate Discourse on Climate Change? - Feb 8, 2009 OmniNerd,He also suggested without saying that Aral sea was dried up by global warming. It has in fact been drained to irrigate cotton crops. Ð’ УзбекиÑ?тане нефтÑ?ники решили Ñ?отрудничать Ñ? Ñ?кологами в ... - Feb 17, 2009 ИÐ? REGNUM,предÑ?тавители компаний ОÐ?О 'Газпром", ОÐ?О "Лукойл", Aral Sea Operating Company, ПетронаÑ? Чаригали ОверÑ?из, ООО "Daewoo Energy Central Asia", KorGas, *** «ЛУКОЙЛ» завершил геологоразведочные работы по проекту «Ð?рал» - Feb 12, 2009 Тренд,ОперационнаÑ? компаниÑ? проекта - Aral Sea Operating Company (юридичеÑ?кое лицо РеÑ?публики УзбекиÑ?тан), генеральный подрÑ?дчик Ñ?ейÑ?моразведочных работ УзбекиÑ?тан: Ð’ Ташкенте обÑ?удили проблемы Ñ?охранениÑ? ... - Feb 10, 2009 Ферганa.Ру,Ð’ чиÑ?ле учаÑ?тников мероприÑ?тиÑ?, были предÑ?тавители таких компаний как ОÐ?О «Газпром», ОÐ?О «Лукойл», Aral Sea Operating Company, ПетронаÑ? Чаригали ОверÑ?из, Uzbekistan on Pages of International Press - Nov 13, 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,Noting that Uzbekistan has taken some important measures to improve the situation in the area of the Aral Sea, the publication emphasizes that these New Aral Sea Map Followup - Oct 21, 2008 Registan.net,While looking around online for more up to date information regarding the Aral Sea, I found a couple images to share. They both come from Oriental Express, Chasing the sea - Helsinki to Beijing - Oct 27, 2008 Easier (press release),Thanks to a rescue plan implemented by the World Bank and Kazakh government, life is slowly returning to parts of the shrivelled Aral Sea, and waters may LEGAL COMMITTEE SEEKS GENERAL ASSEMBLY SUPPORT FOR RULE OF LAW ... - Nov 15, 2008 7thSpace Interactive (press release),A draft on observer status for the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (document A/C.6/63/L.13) would have the Assembly grant that organization clean-up needed - Nov 10, 2008 News & Star,On August 31 this year, I complained to the BBC regarding discrepancies about the Aral Sea in the programme Britain From Above: Satellite Earth. 'Green building is beautiful' - Nov 12, 2008 Jerusalem Post,The Aral Sea in Central Asia once covered an area of 68000 square kilometers. It is now barely a 10th of its former size because the rivers that fed its On the Situation Concerning Use of Water Resources - Oct 30, 2008 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),The fate of Aral Sea may serve as an example. Its drying up bears tragic consequences not only for the Central Asian region, but also for entire Eurasian LIONEL MORAIS in Uzbekistan: Oiling the KL-Tashkent link - Nov 15, 2008 New Straits Times,Currently, Petronas is involved in several exploration and production of oil and gas in four regions of Uzbekistan, namely Baisun, Aral Sea, Surkhanski and UN to consider issue of granting observer status to IFAS - Nov 3, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),From 1960 to 1990 large-scale programs on land developing were implemented in the Aral Sea Basin. The result of the implementation of these programs was Water resources: Efficiency and conservation – Swimming in ... - Nov 7, 2008 Ethical Corporation Magazine,No sooner do they chart the boundaries of the Aral Sea than they have to take out their pens and redraw it. Once the world’s fourth largest inland sea, Reports Show Less Water Used In Organic Farming - Nov 13, 2008 EcoWorldly,Irrigation projects developed by the former Soviet Union in Central Asia to grow cotton have dramatically emptied the Aral Sea, destroying fisheries, Central Asian States Call to Provide Observer Status to IFAS at ... - Oct 21, 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are founders of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, which was created on 9 April UZBEKISTAN: SOUTH KOREAN FIRM INKS ENERGY DEAL WITH TASHKENT - Nov 11, 2008 EurasiaNet,KNOC already operates in Uzbekistan as part of a consortium surveying for hydrocarbon deposits near the Aral Sea. As KNOC Aral Ltd., it owns a 10.2 percent Grand Theft Roto: Using ADPs to your advantage - Oct 29, 2008 ESPNWe'll sell bridges, sea monkeys and waterfront property on the Aral Sea if that's what it takes to land our target players. We call it pulling a GTR. LEGAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ASSEMBLY OBSERVER STATUS FOR UNIVERSITY ... - Nov 6, 2008 7thSpace Interactive (press release),Observer status for a third organization, the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea, would be recommended by terms of a draft resolution introduced A Really Convenient Book About the Environment - Oct 29, 2008 The New AmericanOne of the most tragic examples of government-caused environmental destruction discussed in the book is the death of the Aral Sea. No to Borat, Yes to Kazakhstan - Nov 9, 2008 Orato...working space launch facility, (under Russian control) is located about 200 km to the east of the Aral Sea, on the north bank of the Syr Darya River. Tajik speaker, German ambassador discuss cooperation issues - Nov 14, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),...the Executive Committee for the International Fund for the Saving of the Aral Sea (EC-IFAS) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Russia readies Telstar satellite launch - Oct 31, 2008 Times of the Internet,Cosmodrome space center in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan, about 125 miles east of the Aral Sea, at the end of December, space officials said. KNOC will search for oil and gas in Ferghana valley - Nov 12, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),Russian Lukiol, Malaysian Petronas and Chinese CNPC on carrying out the prospecting works in the Uzbek part of Aral Sea in the northwest of Uzbekistan. Presidents of International Court of Justice, International ... - Oct 31, 2008 ReliefWeb (press release),It added an item on "granting of observer status for the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea" under its organizational, administrative and other Mercury was poured into the main river of Central Kazakhstan ... - Nov 5, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),...areas and Astanaâ€? The clearing of Nura river is an unprecedented project in the history of Kazakhstan which can only be compared to Aral sea rescue. Small power plants will help overcome Kyrgyz energy crisis - Oct 22, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),...power plant could provide the population with electricity during winter, and the water from the Toktogul reservoir would flow directly to the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan concerned over neighbours’ water ambitions - Nov 2, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),Tashkent believes that this will lead to conflicts and environmental disasters, such as the problem of the Aral Sea. Uzbekistan is mainly concerned about Uzbekistan’s investment appeal - Oct 30, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),...will finish their geological prospecting on the Uzbek part of Aral sea on the terms of Production Sector Agreement at expense of 99,8 million dollars. CA in brief - Oct 29, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),The Syr Darya and Amu Darya rivers, which cross a large part of Central Asia, support most of the agricultural output in the Aral Sea basin and have Sarıyer'in parkını Singapur ÅŸirketi yaptırıyor - Oct 31, 2008 Gazeteport,12 Temmuz 2008’de dümeni kilitlendiÄŸi için kıyıya çarparak, parkın tahribatına neden olan Aral-Sea adlı geminin verdiÄŸi zararı karşılamayı kabul eden At 50, NASA Faces Challenges Comparable to Those at the End of Apollo - 27 Sep 2008 Aviation Week,Since 1972, the US Landsat series of satellites has built a global dataset that shows phenomena as varied as the shrinking Aral Sea and deforestation in the Uzbekistan reaffirms commitment to dealing with Aral Sea crisis - Sep 25, 2008 Xinhua,The Aral Sea used to be the world's fourth largest lake but has already shrunk to one-tenth of its original size. The UN Report for 2005 on human Tajik leader declares for rational use of water - Sep 25, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),In his statement, Tajik president also raised the problem of the Aral Sea, noting that desiccation of the Aral Sea is the result of short-sighted police of SPECIAL REPORT: Life returns to just part of the Aral Sea - Sep 14, 2008 People & the Planet,Recent reports of the regeneration of the North Aral Sea in Central Asia, have raised hopes that one day the whole of this great inland sea, The global water situation - Sep 21, 2008 The New Nation,Excessive withdrawal from surface waters: Over the past 30 years, the Aral Sea in the former Soviet Union has shrunk to less than half of its original size. More bad news ahead for the [Little] Aral? - Sep 10, 2008 Registan.net,What effect could this have on the Aral Sea? The Fergana.ru story closes with the comment: Ecologists say such low river level is unprecedented and Map-maker Jethro Lennox plots changing landscapes of our world - Sep 14, 2008 Glasgow Sunday Mail,Jethro said: "Much of the Aral Sea in Asia is desert after rivers were diverted to grow cotton. In Africa, Lake Chad is shrinking because of our need for Analysis: A long, cold winter in store for Central Asia - Sep 25, 2008 United Press International (subscription)...percent of their annual flow, little subsequently reached the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 28000 square miles. S Korean TV journalists study Aral environmental problems - Sep 11, 2008 Kazinform,.../Ruslan Igilik/ The journalists of South Korean KBS TV Company arrived in Kyzylorda oblast to collect information about ecological situation of the Aral Sea Scholar claims to find medieval Jewish capital - Sep 20, 2008 The Associated Press10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern Russia and Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and Central Asia as far as the Aral Sea. Tackling the global food challenge - Sep 10, 2008 On Line opinion,The evidence is in the Aral Sea, the Sahel and the Murray-Darling Basin. As the World Bank’s IAASTD report indicates, our present civilisation is not Internet maps 'demolish British history' - Aug 28, 2008 Independent,There were even worse examples abroad, she said, citing as one of the worst the Google map of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, which is 40 years out of date. The Water Problem : 'Water Wars' a Bad Sign of Times - Sep 19, 2008 MorungExpress,...the Rio Grande and Colorado in the US, the ancient Oxus that once poured into the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the Murray in Australia and the Jordan in Designing with moral fibre - Sep 10, 2008 Stuff.co.nz,They've managed to drain the Aral Sea, the fourth biggest inland lump of water on the globe, and they've done it in 20 years." The task was begun by the You 'sea,' we have answers - Sep 15, 2008 Mail Tribune,The list includes the Baltic Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, the Great Salt Lake and more. Since there's no Naming Czar, PARTNERSHIP EVENTS ON THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS - Sep 25, 2008 Earth Negotiations Bulletin,Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan, highlighted the degradation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia caused by short-sighted water policies. Global warming A changing climate of opinion? - Sep 4, 2008 Economist,As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical A lifeline under threat - Sep 11, 2008 South China Morning Post (subscription),Scientists say it needs a radical rethink if Australia is to avoid the kind of environmental disasters that have occurred in the Aral Sea in Central Asia or Cotton on to Fairtrade jeans - Sep 2, 2008 guardian.co.uk,Furthermore it consumes huge quantities of water – the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan (of which more below) has been all but drained due to the quantities of water Posh and Uzbeks: minnows think big - Sep 5, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,9 The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest inland sea in the world, has virtually disappeared since the 1960s, largely because of Soviet irrigation works. 'Big Dry' turns farms into deserts - Aug 30, 2008 BBC News,..."We are now looking at a situation where we could either have an Aral sea or a series of acid lakes. The options we have shrink by the week because there's Green beans and guilt - Aug 30, 2008 Times of India,...four-year-old Uzbek boy who was suffering, as the cotton which had by then become shirts in consumeristic temples, had dried up most of the Aral sea. KYRGYZSTAN: Melting glaciers threaten livelihoods - Sep 17, 2008 IRINnews.org,According to the International Fund to Save the Aral Sea, an inter-governmental organisation established by Central Asian states, 4,2 percent of Tengri: Blue Heavens - Sep 6, 2008 Variety,Temur (Ilimbeck Kalmourstov) had hoped to return home as a fisherman after his disillusioning experiences as a sailor abroad, but the Aral Sea has dried up Tethys intends to provide one of Tajikistan’s districts with ... - Sep 5, 2008 Times of Central Asia (subscription),In Kazakhstan its current development and exploration assets are located close to the Aral Sea in western Kazakhstan adjacent to the prolific Pre-Caspian Blow up the pokies! - Aug 31, 2008 Webdiary,...the planet be facing an environmental disaster in the Coorong and Lower lakes reminiscent of the devastation of the Aral Sea in the former Soviet Union? KIRGHIZISTAN: La fonte des glaces menace les moyens de subsistance - Sep 23, 2008 mediaterre.org,Selon l'International Fund for saving the Aral Sea, une organisation intergouvernementale créée par les pays d'Asie centrale pour sauver la mer d'Aral, UNESCO Bulletin publishes article on Aral Sea problems - 14 Aug 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,The Information Bulletin of the UNESCO for July-August published article on unfavourable ecologic conditions in Aral Sea Basin, Jahon news agency of the Life returns to shrivelled Aral Sea - Aug 9, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,Fishing ports marooned for nearly 50 years in a man-made desert around Central Asia's Aral Sea are coming back to life as rising water levels reverse the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Aug 13, 2008 New Zealand Herald,Springing from lifeless sand were newly planted forests and man-made rivers, sucking yet more water from the Aral Sea. And from atop each pillar and Aral sea rescue plan a 'partial success' - Aug 1, 2008 guardian.co.uk,30 years apart … the Aral Sea in 1973 and 2004. Photograph: Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World/PA One of the 20th century's great ecological disasters The Kazakh Miracle: Recovery of the North Aral Sea - Aug 1, 2008 Environment News ServiceASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 1, 2008 (ENS) - Water is returning to the North Aral Sea in Central Asia that had shrunk to a quarter of its former size during Don't let thirsty Las Vegas suck the life out of Utah - Aug 9, 2008 Salt Lake Tribune,The history of the Aral Sea in central Asia and the Owens Valley in California offers a powerful lesson about the likely consequence if Utah allows Nevada Health train arrives in Aral Sea area - Jul 17, 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,The health train organized in the framework of the "Year of youth" programme has arrived in the Aral Sea area, UzA reported. The doctors visited stations CENTRAL ASIA’S WATER PROBLEMS SOAR DURING LONG SUMMER - Aug 1, 2008 Eurasia Daily Monitor,The two rivers wind their way across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan before draining into the Aral Sea. The rivers together contain more than 90 A windfall tax will not solve our energy crisis - Jul 31, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,The Aral Sea is getting bigger. Suspecting a Borat-style joke, I checked and it is true. After decades of shrinking and being cited as one of the world's Liquid Deficit - Jul 30, 2008 Transitions Online,The case of the Aral Sea is the most visible and dramatic proof of what non-cooperation over water resource management may signify. Tajik president suggests using Lake Sarez reserves to solve water ... - Jul 21, 2008 ITAR-TASS,The Tajik leader voiced concern about the drying Aral Sea where water reserves have decreased twofold over the past several decades. Water scarcity in the deserts of central Asia - Jul 17, 2008 guardian.co.uk,Water is a precious resource in the desert lands of Central Asia, where only the Aral Sea and a few rivers must provide enough water for the region's 60 Analysis: Central Asian electricity - Aug 7, 2008 United Press International...controlled by Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, to flow westward to empty into the Aral Sea, which, because of 50 years of catastrophic Soviet planning, AKERMAN: A river system sacrificed by ego - Jul 22, 2008 Geelong Advertiser,THE former Soviet Union killed the Aral Sea, the fourth largest inland body of water; Saddam Hussein destroyed the marshes at the confluence of the Tigris Photo exhibition showcases Aral problem in Geneva - Jul 31, 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,The chairman of UNEP Regional Office for Europe Christoph Buvier said that the crisis in the Aral Sea, as well as the situation in the area adjacent to Aral NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 10 August 2008 - Aug 11, 2008 Space Ref (press release)...[Uplinked target areas were oil contamination of the Caspian sea surface and drilling platforms near the Dagestan shore, the coastal strip of the Aral Sea Bakkenworkers Scarce - Aug 11, 2008 RedOrbit,Today Venezuela, tomorrow the Aral Sea. I'm not saying all places are equal to you, but from an industry point of view, in some sense an oil field is an oil Hewer on the highway: Mongol Rally, day 32 - Aug 4, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,Aral used to be the main harbour for the Aral Sea (which has receded and is now 40 miles away, due to a madcap Soviet irrigation scheme in the 1960s) but is The Really Inconvenient Truths - Aug 9, 2008 Right Side News,Murray details USSR efforts in the mid-1960s to divert the Aral Sea for cotton cultivation, which led to the sea's virtual disappearance off the coast of Singing in a problem about a problem - Aug 8, 2008 Neweurasia.net,I was very much surprised watching the video of schoolchildren singing Katyusha in the former shore of Aral sea. Katyusha is an old Russian Second World War Your Ticket to Calamity, Lunch Included - Aug 8, 2008 BusinessWeek...learning about man-made eco-disasters such as the drying up of Uzbekistan's Aral Sea, or drawing historical lessons from the killing fields of Cambodia. KZ President participated in “EXPO-2008â€? Itl exposition - Aug 3, 2008 Kazinform,The country makes great efforts on rehabilitation of the Aral Sea, Eurasia’s most acute problem. Ecological safety of the Caspian Sea is of great importance Seeing is believing - Jul 16, 2008 Indian Express,We see aerial photos of the Aral Sea drying up. We practically can’t buy caviar from the Caspian Sea any more. The European Space Agency announced in Olympic Pollution Games - Aug 1, 2008 Wall Street JournalThink of the mess discovered in Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, starting with Chernobyl or the Aral Sea. Many of the non-Chinese places on Experts demand River Murray declared state of emergency - Jul 31, 2008 Adelaidenow,...regime that drained the Aral Sea, or to Saddam Hussein's regime for the acid sulphate damage caused by his drainage of the Iraqi marshlands," he said. A NATION CHALLENGED: CLIMATE; Afghan Drought Inflicts Its Own Misery - Aug 7, 2008 New York Times Blogs,...miles of water -- nearly four times the flow of the Colorado -- siphoned by irrigation and for water supplies before reaching the shriveled Aral Sea. Uzbekistan, Japan share experience in supporting NGOs - Aug 1, 2008 Journal of Turkish Weekly,Roots small grants programme to the Uzbek NGOs, particularly the active members of the NNGOAU, for the planting of forests in the area of Aral Sea. Rwanda: Mess With Nature And Soon Enough It Will Mess Back - Jul 29, 2008 AllAfrica.com,The Aral Sea, which was the fourth largest inland lake in 1960, is now 5% of its former size. It also happens to be one of the few ancient lakes (5 million Parka çarpan gemi seferden men edildi - Jul 19, 2008 Hürriyet,...günü Sarıyer’de arıza nedeniyle sürüklenerek çocuk parkına çarpan Singapur bandıralı M/T Aral Sea isimli geminin seferden men edilmesini istedi. ì?¸ê°„활ë?™, 기후변화ë¿? 아니ë?¼ â€˜í† ì–‘ë³€í™”â€™ë?„ 초래 - Jul 23, 2008 환경ì?¼ë³´,...위ì?˜ 사진ì?€ ìš°ì¦ˆë² í‚¤ìŠ¤íƒ„ì—? 있는 함수호 ì•„ëž„í•´(Aral Sea)ì?˜ 1973ë…„ê³¼ 2004ë…„ 9ì›” 사진ì?„ ë³´ì—¬ì£¼ê³ ìžˆë‹¤. 본 사진ì?€ ìœ ì—”í™˜ê²½ê³„íš? 지구변화지ë?„(UNEP Atlas of the [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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