Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.
Otherwise good tho
aral sea
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/cdc005b0-f1ad-41be-92e0-7daca68a736a.jpeg
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Stoneykins@mander.xyz 7 months ago
lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
More like: 1989 (right), 2014 (wrong)
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months 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?
grue@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Now it’s a toxic desert.
newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net 7 months ago
I did that! capitalist-laugh
Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Salton Sea. Tulare lake.
Kuori@hexbear.net 7 months ago
may as well add “complex life on planet earth” to the list as well at this point
bleistift2@feddit.de 7 months ago
When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”
M68040@hexbear.net 7 months ago
342345@feddit.de 7 months ago
Indeed. It’s gone since 2018. It took 70 years. There is a time lapse of It’s last 18 years: Poof. gone.
REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 7 months ago
Most of the evaportaion happened post 1991. I wonder if something important happened. Oh yes, the USSR dissolved.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
:-(