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Aral SeaArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml/list.htmlJournal 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 Astana� 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 şirketi yaptırıyor - Oct 31, 2008 Gazeteport,12 Temmuz 2008’de dümeni kilitlendiği için kıyıya çarparak, parkın tahribatına neden olan Aral-Sea adlı geminin verdiği 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, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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