The Soviet Union literally destroyed the Aral Sea. This nation's going to bring it back. Kazakhstan's ambitious plan to save the Aral Sea is starting to pay off.

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Can the Aral Sea Be Revived? The Aral Sea once covered some 26,000 square miles (41,800 square kilometers)—an area larger than the state of West Virginia—with water.

Aral Sea Looks Like a Painting from Space The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water. The image actually combines three separate radar scans: the red parts show data from Oct. 17 2014, the green from Dec. 28 2014 and blue from Feb. 14 2015.

Satellite Image Of The Aral Sea Looks Like An Abstract Painting This beautiful satellite image of the Aral Sea belies the destruction it reveals: Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, it has lost nearly 90% of its water volume in the last 50 years. The reason is due to irrigation projects that h Read more ... ave effectively destroyed the region’s fishing indus…