The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea
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 Published On Feb 13, 2020

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Source/Further reading:

Photoessay documenting the changes in Kazakhstan: https://avauntmagazine.com/fishing-ca...
How Kazakhstan is reviving the sea, while Uzbekistan is killing it: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20...
The second phase of the Kokaral dam: https://kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/society/...
Nat Geo’s take: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ma...
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Aral...
The view on the ground (BBC podcast): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02k...
Virgin Lands Campaign: https://www.rbth.com/multimedia/histo...
Map of the Aral Sea changing over time: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/wor...
The Aral Sea in the Medieval Period: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Child Mortality rates by country, 1990-2018: https://www.unicef.org/media/60561/fi...

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