Some of the book's most dramatic satellite images document the shrinkage of the Aral Sea.
The Aral Sea was dried up by upstream diversions of water for vast areas of irrigation.
Over the last 30 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to a fraction of its former size.
Finally a word for Michael Coe who according to Banyan sees a comparison to the Aral Sea.
Starting in the 1960s, the Soviet bureaucracy irrigated cotton fields in Uzbekistan by diverting Himalayan rivers that used to feed the Aral Sea.
Fishing used to be big business on the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.
Sitting on the border between two former Soviet states, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest inland sea in the world.
"I think a lot of Americans are going to want to travel to Cuba because it's been the forbidden fruit for so long, " Aral said.
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Aral Sea Archival Fond (Kazakhstan) consists of files from 1965 to 1990 that record the ecological tragedy of the Aral Sea and attempts to fight it.
Some Cuban-Americans like Tessie Aral, owner of a Miami, Florida, travel agency that specializes in trips to Cuba, see the financial benefits of lifting the travel ban.
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The people of Aralsk, once a port at the northern tip of the Aral Sea, even began to dream about going back to sea for their livelihoods.
As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.
All BRABUS powertrain components are operated with ARAL high-performance lubricants.
If the Aral Sea's northern neighbours do get their dam, there does not seem to be much hope left for the larger, southern section, which Kazakhstan shares with Uzbekistan.
As a result, these rivers now diminish to a trickle before they reach the Aral Sea, which has shrunk to about two-thirds of its former size, creating an environmental catastrophe.
Due to the consequences of the environmental crisis in Aral Sea region such as poor soil conditions, intensive desertification and land degradation, the farmers and dehkhans often face a plenty of problems.
It is a unique fond of information for the study of the Sea of Aral and of how it came to shrink to 10 per cent of its size in the 1960s.
Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.
The story of the former Soviet Union's disastrous policy of cotton-growing in Uzbekistan, of the wind-blown salt that its depletion of the Aral has left, and of the pollution remaining, makes for very depressing reading.
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