the Aral Sea, during the Soviet era and the comparisons between the Aral and the Caspian may seem to be a no-brainer. “We do not exactly expect the Aral Sea situation for the Caspian - the worst ...

It opens with a paper, by Mr. Konshin, on the old beds of the Amu-daria, accompanied by a map ... Caspian sea as a basin, elongated from west to east, and in ignoring the existence of Lake Aral ...

Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Central Asia's shrinking Aral Sea has reached a new low, thanks to decades-old water diversions ... Darya [river] to the Caspian Sea," Philip Micklin ...

The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea ... just getting around became tough. In the old days everyone went from one fishing village ...

No one country is to blame, but if they fail to take collective action, there could be a repeat of the Aral Sea disaster, Kaleji said. There is no guarantee the Caspian “will return to a natural ...

The Aral is an inland sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, to the east of the Caspian Sea. At one time, it was the world's fourth-largest inland body of water -- after the Caspian Sea between ...

The 13th century Mongol invasion of central Asia also led to the Amu Dar'ya, one of two major rivers that feed the Aral, being diverted to the Caspian Sea. Clearly humans were a major factor in ...

since Medieval desiccation associated with diversion of Amu Darya to the Caspian Sea." In the early 1900s, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. It has been dwindling since the ...