Aral: A Dammed Sea | Chloe Dewe Mathews - 1 views
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Andrew Gilford on 24 Jan 14In the middle of the vast, arid region between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan lies the Aral Sea, a land-locked body of salt water. Once home to hundreds of species of fish which supported nearby communities for centuries, the sea was almost irreversibly drained during Soviet rule.