{"id":28159,"date":"2009-07-10T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:39:10","slug":"3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAbout 20 years ago, the sea divided into the Small Aral Sea in the north, located in Kazakhstan, and the Large Aral Sea, shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The horseshoe-shaped Large Aral Sea began to split into eastern and western lobes in 2000. <\/p>\n<p>The ESA released an overlay of photographs taken by one of its Earth observation satellites, Envisat, on July 1, 2006 and July 6, 2009, showing that &ldquo;the eastern lobe retreated substantially&rdquo; in that period. &ldquo;It appears to have lost about 80% of its water since the 2006 [image] acquisition, at which time the eastern lobe had a length of about 150 kilometres and a width of about 70 kilometres,&rdquo; the agency said. <\/p>\n<p>By 2020, the ESA added, the Large Aral Sea is expected to dry out completely. Efforts are under way to save the far-smaller northern part, thanks to the Kok-Aral dike, a project of the World Bank and the government of Kazakhstan. Water level there has risen by four metres since the dike was completed in 2005. <\/p>\n<p>Some experts consider the desiccation of the Aral Sea to be the worst-ever man-made ecological catastrophe, with huge implications for human well-being. Once-thriving fishing and other shoreline industries have been destroyed. Each year, tens of thousands of tonnes of salt-laced dust blow from the dried-up seabed. Much of it is contaminated by pesticides. <\/p>\n<p>See full story <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20090710\/sc_afp\/environmentdisasteraral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaEO\/SEMGVT6CTWF_index_0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world&#8217;s fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-28159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Large Aral Sea shrinks further | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world&#039;s fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Large Aral Sea shrinks further\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world&#039;s fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dialogue Earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"China Dialogue\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\"},\"headline\":\"Large Aral Sea shrinks further\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\"},\"wordCount\":227,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\",\"name\":\"Large Aral Sea shrinks further | Dialogue Earth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00\",\"description\":\"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Large Aral Sea shrinks further\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"description\":\"Global climate and environment news\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"width\":256,\"height\":256,\"caption\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_\",\"\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/\"],\"description\":\"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.\",\"email\":\"info@dialogue.earth\",\"telephone\":\"(+44) 7542 525 859\",\"legalName\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"foundingDate\":\"2006-09-22\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"11\",\"maxValue\":\"50\"},\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\",\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further | Dialogue Earth","description":"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further","og_description":"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.","og_url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/","og_site_name":"Dialogue Earth","article_published_time":"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"China Dialogue","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/"},"author":{"name":"China Dialogue","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed"},"headline":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further","datePublished":"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/"},"wordCount":227,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/","name":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further | Dialogue Earth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-07-10T10:56:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:39:10+00:00","description":"The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), Agence France-Presse reported. The central Asian sea &ndash; once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water &ndash; is now a byword for environmental devastation. It has been retreating for five decades, since rivers that fed it were diverted for Soviet cotton-irrigation projects.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/3159-large-aral-sea-shrinks-further\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Large Aral Sea shrinks further"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","name":"Dialogue Earth","description":"Global climate and environment news","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization","name":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","width":256,"height":256,"caption":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_","","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/"],"description":"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.","email":"info@dialogue.earth","telephone":"(+44) 7542 525 859","legalName":"Dialogue Earth","foundingDate":"2006-09-22","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"11","maxValue":"50"},"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed","name":"China Dialogue","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=28159"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=28159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}