The Aral Sea's disappearance became one of the world's greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die
- In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Within a single human lifetime, most of it was gone.
- Soviet planners had redirected its two feeder rivers to irrigate cotton fields across Central Asia, and by the 1980s the lake was receiving almost no fresh water at all.
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- In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
- Within a single human lifetime, most of it was gone.
- Soviet planners had redirected its two feeder rivers to irrigate cotton fields across Central Asia, and by the 1980s the lake was receiving almost no fresh water at all.
Sources: Times of India