Declining Aral Sea: Satellite Images Highlight Dramatic Retreat
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 23:14
in Earth & Climate
New Envisat images highlight the dramatic retreat of the Aral Sea's shoreline from 2006 to 2009. The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, but it has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation projects.