Humans Drained The Aral Sea Once Before – But There Are No Free Refills This Time Round

Sunday, October 5, 2014 - 11:10 in Astronomy & Space

Worth it for cheap cotton? Credit:so11e/flckr, CC BY-NC-NDBy Anson Mackay, University College LondonThe Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, the largest basin has completely dried up. read more

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