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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • 342345@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Indeed. It’s gone since 2018. It took 70 years. There is a time lapse of It’s last 18 years: Poof. gone.

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    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects

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    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      :-(

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  • Stoneykins@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.

    Otherwise good tho

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More like: 1989 (right), 2014 (wrong)

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there’s actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?

      The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.

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  • Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.

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  • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now it’s a toxic desert.

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    • newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I did that! capitalist-laugh

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  • Alaskaball@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Salton Sea. Tulare lake.

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    • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      may as well add “complex life on planet earth” to the list as well at this point

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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”

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  • M68040@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ♫ Half-Life: Alyx OST - “Thirty Seven After Six”

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