A few years later, still attracted to the country, he returned to Uzbekistan to write an article about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.

几年后，他仍对乌兹别克斯坦心生向往，于是回到了这个国家并写了一篇关于咸海消失的文章。

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By 2000 the Northern and Southern Aral Sea had already separated.

2000年的时候咸海的北部和南部水域就已经断开。

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This is not good but not so bad as for the Aral Sea and Mesopotamia.

对于咸海与美索不达米亚地区而言，这不是好消息，但也不是那么糟糕。

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Some of the book's most dramatic satellite images document the shrinkage of the Aral Sea.

NPR: Book Takes Wide-Angle View of a Changing Planet

The Aral Sea was dried up by upstream diversions of water for vast areas of irrigation.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Over the last 30 years the Aral Sea has shrunk to a fraction of its former size.

BBC: The Aral Sea crisis