aral sea

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• 342345@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    :-(

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• Stoneykins@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.

  Otherwise good tho

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now it’s a toxic desert.

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  • newerAccountWhoDis@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did that! capitalist-laugh

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• Alaskaball@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Salton Sea. Tulare lake.

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  • Kuori@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• M68040@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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