Tue. October 07, 2008
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Journal of Turkish Weekly
October 6, 2008
Cotton is a thirsty crop, and excessive draining of the rivers for cotton production has led to the Aral Sea shrinking to just 15% of its former volume. ...
San Antonio Express
October 3, 2008
... 10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern
Russia and
Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and
Central Asia as far as the
Aral Sea. ...
Kazinform
October 3, 2008
... programmes for the support they rendered to our country in mitigating consequences of environmental disasters in the Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk regions. ...
RedOrbit
October 3, 2008
He stressed
Uzbekistan's efforts to protect the environment and, in particular softening the consequences of the disaster in the
Aral Sea basin. ...
ISN
October 2, 2008
Cotton is a thirsty crop, and excessive draining of the rivers for cotton production has led to the Aral Sea shrinking to just 15 percent of its former ...
San Fernando Valley Sun
October 1, 2008
"Flow" sometimes suffers from its ambition, spreading itself thinly over many subjects and regions; what, no mention of the dried-up
Aral Sea or
Africa's ...
Transitions Online
September 30, 2008
According to the International Fund to Save the Aral Sea, an inter-governmental organization established by Central Asian states, 4.2 percent of ...
WorldChanging
September 30, 2008
The desertification of the
Aral Sea in
Central Asia, one of the planet's foremost ecological catastrophes, is linked directly to cotton cultivation. ...
Space Ref (press release)
September 29, 2008
This natural-color satellite image shows the
Aral Sea on August 16, 2008. The colored contour lines show the approximate shorelines of the
sea since 2000. ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
September 28, 2008
... and its agencies and programmes for their support in mitigating the consequences of environmental disasters in the Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk regions. ...
San Francisco Chronicle
September 28, 2008
... 10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern
Russia and
Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and
Central Asia as far as the
Aral Sea. ...
Aviation Week
September 26, 2008
Since 1972,
the US Landsat series of
satellites has built a global dataset that shows phenomena as varied as the shrinking
Aral Sea and deforestation in the ...
Xinhua
September 26, 2008
The Aral Sea used to be the world's fourth largest lake but has already shrunk to one-tenth of its original size. The UN Report for 2005 on human ...
Earth Negotiations Bulletin
September 25, 2008
Emomali Rahmon, President of
Tajikistan, highlighted the degradation of the
Aral Sea in
Central Asia caused by short-sighted water policies. ...
USA Today
September 22, 2008
... 10th centuries they conquered huge swaths of what is now southern
Russia and
Ukraine, the Caucasus Mountains and
Central Asia as far as the
Aral Sea. ...
The New Nation
September 21, 2008
Excessive withdrawal from surface waters: Over the past 30 years, the
Aral Sea in the former
Soviet Union has shrunk to less than half of its original size. ...
MorungExpress
September 19, 2008
IRINnews.org
September 18, 2008
According to the International Fund to Save the Aral Sea, an inter-governmental organisation established by Central Asian states, 4,2 percent of ...
Mail Tribune
September 15, 2008
The list includes the
Baltic Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red
sea, the
Caspian Sea, the
Aral Sea, the Great Salt Lake and more. Since there's no Naming Czar, ...
People & the Planet
September 14, 2008
Recent reports of the regeneration of the North
Aral Sea in
Central Asia, have raised hopes that one day the whole of this great inland
sea, ...
Glasgow Sunday Mail
September 14, 2008
Jethro said: "Much of the
Aral Sea in
Asia is desert after rivers were diverted to grow cotton. In
Africa, Lake
Chad is shrinking because of our need for ...
Kazinform
September 12, 2008
/Ruslan Igilik/ The
Journalists of South Korean KBS TV Company arrived in Kyzylorda
Oblast to collect information about ecological situation of the
Aral Sea ...
Stuff.co.nz
September 10, 2008
They've managed to drain the Aral Sea, the fourth biggest inland lump of water on the globe, and they've done it in 20 years." The task was begun by the ...
On Line opinion
September 10, 2008
The evidence is in the
Aral Sea, the Sahel and the Murray-Darling Basin. As the
World Bank's IAASTD report indicates, our present civilisation is not ...
Registan.net
September 10, 2008
What effect could this have on the
Aral Sea? The
Fergana.ru story closes with the comment:
Ecologists say such low river level is unprecedented and ...
Variety
September 7, 2008
Temur (Ilimbeck Kalmourstov) had hoped to return home as a fisherman after his disillusioning experiences as a sailor abroad, but the Aral Sea has dried up ...
Economist
September 4, 2008
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 ...
ScienceAlert
September 2, 2008
The evidence is in the
Aral Sea, the Sahel and the Murray-Darling Basin. As the
World Bank's IAASTD report indicates, our present civilisation is not ...
guardian.co.uk
September 2, 2008
Furthermore it consumes huge quantities of water - the
Aral Sea in
Uzbekistan (of which more below) has been all but drained due to the quantities of water ...
Webdiary
September 1, 2008
... the planet be facing an environmental disaster in the Coorong and Lower lakes reminiscent of the devastation of the
Aral Sea in the former
Soviet Union? ...
Times of India
August 31, 2008
... four-year-old Uzbek boy who was suffering, as the cotton which had by then become shirts in consumeristic temples, had dried up most of the Aral Sea. ...
BBC News
August 31, 2008
"We are now looking at a situation where we could either have an Aral Sea or a series of acid lakes. The options we have shrink by the week because there's ...
Times of India
August 29, 2008
He traced the cotton in his T-shirt to
Uzbekistan's dead
Aral Sea, where cotton had dried up most of the
sea. His jeans came from Dhaka in
Bangladesh where ...
Independent
August 29, 2008
There were even worse examples abroad, she said, citing as one of the worst the
Google map of the
Aral Sea in
Central Asia, which is 40 years out of date. ...
Organiser
August 25, 2008
Chernobyl disaster and dry-up of
Aral Sea are some among them. The social condition of
Soviet Union was deplorable. A society having all kinds of wickedness ...
The Smart Set
August 25, 2008
I'm drinking chai in my Uzbek cup that's decorated with the plant responsible for desiccating the Aral Sea precisely because...well, it makes me sadder. ...
AlterNet
August 23, 2008
If you want proof the world has a water problem you're better treading the damp summer pavements of the City than the parched bed of the Aral Sea. ...
Business Green
August 20, 2008
... soaks up 2700 litres of water, much of which will have been drawn from the
Indus or other rivers feeding the fast diminishing
Aral Sea in
Central Asia. ...
WWF International
August 20, 2008
A shirt made from cotton grown in
Pakistan or
Uzbekistan cotton - and possibly irrigated by water from the
Indus river or the rivers that feed the
Aral Sea ...
Buzzle
August 19, 2008
... river that often runs dry before it reaches the
sea, or from
Aral Sea that has lost 80% of its volume in the last 40 years because of excess irrigation. ...
