07/06/2022
The Aral Sea located on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was ones the fourth largest lake in the world. This timelapse shows how water levels here have gradually decreased .
In 1960s, the river that feds the Aral were diverted to irrigate newly created cotton fields in the adjacent kyzylkum desert . By 1997 , water volume had declined to 10% of its original size and recent satellite images show its entire eastern basis dried up.
Source Imagery : NASA / Google Timelapse