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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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