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Aral SeaAral Sea,[3] Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan is the world's 16th largest lake at 6,625 square miles (17,160 square kilometers). Aral Sea has a maximum length of 266 miles (428 square kilometers).LAKES Times of India,Pakistan, Israel and Jordan. Another example is that of the Northern Aral Sea, shared by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It is being ... Kazakhstan: Nazarbaev Seeks Greater Business Ties With Britain - Nov 22, 2006 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty,Executives of other companies tend to agree. Dr. David Robson is the director of Thetys Petroleum, which has been developing a gas field close to the Aral Sea. ... Uzbekistan: Baisun will become open soon - Nov 22, 2006 Ferghana.ru,...the Huns had driven from the Baikal region embraced the Baktrijan culture and founded the Kushan empire that spanned the territory from the Aral Sea to India. ... Regular inter-parliamentary meetings to promote Kazakh-Japanese ... - Nov 21, 2006 Kazinform,Japan is rendering support to Kazakhstan in solution of ecological problems connected with the Aral Sea and Semipalatinsk region. ... European Space Agency and Google Earth showcase our planet - Nov 16, 2006 European Space Agency,From the deforestation of the Amazon to the fallout of raging forest fires in Sub-Sahara Africa and the decline of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, this before-and ... The reality of water consumption - Oct 26, 2006 Minnesota Daily,So much, in fact, that the Aral Sea, the former destination of those rivers, is unable to replenish itself. The Aral Sea was the ... Migratory birds start flocking Hirakud dam - Nov 10, 2006 The Statesman,Chilika, Hirakud reservoir is the next favoured destination for thousands of winged guests coming from Caspian Sea, lake Baikal, Aral Sea, Mongolia, central ... UN Sees Weak Leadership On Water Issues - Nov 9, 2006 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty,Perhaps one of the world's most visible examples is the Aral Sea. Sixty years ago, the Aral Sea was one of the world's...largest freshwater lakes. ... Partnership launched to combat land degradation in Central Asia - Nov 16, 2006 UzReport.com,...and forest and woodlands; and capacity building in land use planning, strengthening the policy environment, and remediation in the region of the former Aral Sea ... Welcome to Uzbekistan - Nov 10, 2006 The Daily Yomiuri,I knew it was a former Soviet state, one of the many 'Stans of Central Asia that it is somewhere near the vanishing Aral Sea, and that there was a massacre of ... Africa: "The Most Effective Vaccine against Child Death in Africa ... - Nov 9, 2006 AllAfrica.com,Africa, as you find elsewhere. Lake Chad, in a way, is Africa's Aral sea [shared by Uzbekistan and Kazakstan]. It has shrunk to ... Desert Flower - Nov 12, 2006 TIMEThe first is the dried-up bed of the Aral Sea?once the world's fourth-largest lake, but now a hellishly arid landscape of grounded fishing boats and sand. ... The Kazakhstan Klondike - Nov 9, 2006 Spiegel Online,He has plans to entice fellow Kazakhs from the former Soviet biological weapons research center on Vozrozhdeniye Island in the Aral Sea to return to Astana. ... Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet - Nov 10, 2006 World Hum,If so, they might investigate Karakalpakstan, the autonomous republic in the westernmost part of Uzbekistan, due south of the shrinking Aral Sea. ... Dammed river, dead river: A case study on Teesta - Nov 2, 2006 The Daily Star,The Teesta is going to embrace the fate of the Aral Sea project in Russia and Irtsh-Karaganda Canal in Kazakhtan which have been proved to be ecological ... ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: Taklamakan - Where Oil and Water Don't Mix - Oct 30, 2006 Inter Press Service (subscription),...rate to feed Xinjiang's burgeoning economy, parts of Kazakhstan could face an environmental disaster, and lake Balkhash could turn into a second Aral Sea. ... Great Lakes could be region of troubled waters, writer warns - Nov 6, 2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription),...basin? A. For those who say the Great Lakes are too big to be damaged, do what I did: travel to the Aral Sea (in central Asia). Once ... Balkhash Lake Turning Into Another Aral? - Nov 6, 2006 Inter Press Service (subscription),If China takes more water from the Ili River that flows into Balkhash, "the lake will turn into another Aral (Sea)," warns Mels Eleusizov, the head of ... A 60-second guide to Kazakhstan - Oct 28, 2006 The Observer,Major features include the northern Ertis river, Lake Balkhash in the south east, the Aral Sea which borders Uzbekistan, the Caspian and 'singing' sand dunes. ... Kazakhstan for first time becomes UN ECOSOC member - Nov 3, 2006 TREND Information,...drug trafficking and illegal migration, increasing of the poverty scale and spread of HIV-AIDS, desertification and death of the Aral Sea, worsening of ... Kazakhstan becomes UN ECOSOC member - Nov 3, 2006 Kazinform,...social problems of the region like drug trafficking, illegal migration, poverty scale and spread of HIV/AIDS, desertification of Aral Sea basin, environment ... KHAZARIA: A EURASIAN KINGDOM LIKE NO OTHER - Oct 27, 2006 EurasiaNet,...that became the dominant power of southern Russia, and encompassed regions stretching from the modern-day Ukrainian capital of Kiev to Central Asia’s Aral Sea ... Navoi region, Karakalpakstan to receive aid - Oct 24, 2006 UzReport.com,The event aimed at support of needy population, render humanitarian aid and free medical aid and attraction attention of public to Aral Sea problem. From the newstands: Notable magazine offerings from current issues - Oct 29, 2006 Sacramento Bee,..."That is what led to the destruction of the Aral Sea, the dewatering of the Colorado River basin in Mexico and the Yellow River in China.". ... The real face of Boratstan - Oct 28, 2006 The Observer,There's terrible human tragedy whichever way you turn: the Aral Sea, scene of the world's worst man-made ecological disaster; Semey, formerly known as ... World: Experts Fight To Save Ancient Agricultural Systems - Oct 25, 2006 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty,...rich land into desert. And it’s happening around the world, from the Aral Sea in Central Asia to North America. As one of the ... Ecosan discusses results of day of ecology and health - Oct 24, 2006 UzReport.com,Thus, in 2006, in accordance with the provision 21 of the part 1 of the "Year of Charity and Medical Workers" Programme, the region near the Aral Sea and other ... |