Shrinking Aral Sea, 2000-2016 In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region’s two major rivers, fed by snowmelt and precipitation in faraway mountains, were used to transform the desert into farms for cotton and other crops. Before the project, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya rivers flowed down from the mountains, cut northwest through the Kyzylkum Desert, and finally pooled together in the lowe

The Aral Sea environmental disaster, the shrinking of the Aral Sea between 1960 and 2014 ➖ Formerly one of the four largest lakes in the world with an area of 68,000 km2 (26,300 sq mi), the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects. By 2007, it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into four lakes – the North Aral Sea, the eastern and western basins of the once far larger South Aral Sea, and one sma

Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Program According to DepEd Philippines Regional Office OIC Regional Director RONELO AL K. FIRMO, ARAL is a national initiative designed to address learning gaps and improve academic performance in basic education. It provides learning interventions, particularly for students struggling in reading, mathematics, and science. #everyonehighlightsfollowerseveryonehighlightsfollowerseveryone #everyonehighlightsfollowers #everyoneシ゚viralシviralシfypシ゚viral

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