Drained Under Soviet Rule, Aral Sea Has Become a Huge Source of Emissions

The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the ...

The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare – it’s a carbon bomb

Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But ...
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Refilling the Aral Sea: A Spanish scientific proposal to avoid releasing millions of tons of CO₂

The drying of the Aral Sea, between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, is one of the largest agricultural-driven ecological disasters ...
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Aral Sea's Rapid Drying Shifts from Carbon Sink to Source

Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, transforming the region from a carbon sink into ...