Aral Sea

[calaftheeast]

Heartbreaking.

God the Russians/Soviets suck. Chernobyl, the Aral Sea, Norilsk, Dzerzhinsk, the Amur Leopard and Tiger... they don't care about the environment, they don't care about other countries and they surely don't care about their own people and how interminably and severely they all suffer to die.

[S70184]

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[Dracony345]

What horror

[amaral1903]

fuck u russia

[topsyluv]

this is just so sad! in school we have to do a news report of this

[spesh12345]

In 1965 the USSR knew it was going to shrink to almost nothing

[aziqbal]

fucking stupid dumb communist soviey bastards

[Sidtan33]

i have a project on it!

[sufferist]

уууууу буржуи

[gianlucanders]

Well, atleast the north is getting its water back...

[d0ubleagent]

The Aral Sea is not a victim of global warming. It is, however, a man-made disaster area. Soviet era policies of diverting 2 fresh water rivers into irrigation for cotton instead of the sea starting in the 1940s have caused this situation.

[nohlins]

merda quanto puo essere stupido l'uomo

[dakiller234]

title is 2 letters away from anal sex.

[incignifikant]

its funny you thought anal i thought oral

[dakiller234]

lol XD

[lordace777]

that was great.

[araeciluz]

U are idiot my friend. The world is dying and U...

[red93head]

i think its funny how even though we're basically shooting ourselves in the foot; no one really seems to care.

[HumanStrategy]

How are we shooting ourselves in the foot?

[AppStoreReviewer]

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[rubi84]

Kazakhstan has the second largest uranium, chromium, lead, and zinc reserves, the third largest manganese reserves, the fifth largest copper reserves, and ranks in the top ten for coal, iron, and gold. It is also an exporter of diamonds. Perhaps most significant for economic development, Kazakhstan also currently has the 11th largest proven reserves of both oil and natural gas.

[Nixtubing]

Did it die?

[sega31098]

It's going to of nothing's done about it.

[wrader2001]

Communism destroyed this lake. The USSR diverted to rivers flowing into it for irrigation. The people had little say. Now their environment is dying.

[buzigems]

Yeah, because capitalism never destroyed anything, right?

[wrader2001]

Ummm... Whoever said that? I didn't.

[Truthiness231]

Yeah, because communism never destroyed anything, right?

[deadfacewv]

Communist countries in the old Euro-Eastern Bloc had basically NO regulations for pollution. Many of the forests in that area are now petrified due to their mass polluting.

[DaRockFlipper]

dont start the blame game here! humans have lil effect on this planet! there's much larger forces out there that are effecting our planet. so if we (humans) are causing this on earth then how would we raise the temp on mars as well with Mars hummers and mars nukes....hmmm better go back too the drawing board!

[Subjugate]

The clip says irrigation, doesn't that say enough? Also mars is further off thus colder, and it has less solar radiation. Also it has a tiny atmosphere, so it doesn't absorb much radiation.

[BXXIII]

he may be a bit off topic but he is right, if we were talking about global warming, yes it is warming, no it is not caused by human activity. The Sun has been more active and is heating other planets as well. Human activity accounts for very very little of the heating if any.

[Truthiness231]

Well said BXXIII. And "Global Warming" is a bit of a misnomer at that; a better term is "Global Climate Shift", which is both true and inevitable as our planet goes through it's normal cycles. Unless humans were responsible for the last few times the planet cooled off and heated up in it's normal cycles, me'thinks it's a natural occurrence.

Not to mention Mars is actually undergoing "Global Warming" right now too... is that going to be blamed on Americans too? Fuck I'm sick of being a scapegoat

[deadfacewv]

The bad thing is that most people believe and repeat that global warming is a man-made thing. As you say, it is a naturally occurring phenomena. However, most scientists believe (and it is backed up by evidence) that man is accelerating the change faster than it has ever occurred before. People shouldn't blame just the Americans, but we should become more green. If you want to see what CO2 and greenhouse gasses do to a planet, look at Venus, the hottest planet in our solar system.

[arkturusstar]

You are wrong

[afaiienphoenix]

good argument.

[deadfacewv]

arkturusstar...

ummm... what am I wrong about?

[arkturusstar]

There are many scientific evidence of the causes of the Globlal Warming. The human being is the responsible, not more.

[secoxxx]

no, no one should blame america, look at china to start. its like 10 americas.

[KiddyExpress]

It's because us Humans have been sort of "pampered" in a way that whatever we need we do everything in our power to get them. As we do this, we don't think of the repercussions it does to Planet Earth.

[maverickM249]

what are you afraid of? that the planet will die? it can't die, because nothing can officially die. it will only change and when it changes we will come to pass (which is going to happen anyways, regardless). now, i do think we should take the responsibility to take care of our planet. really all were doing is prolonging our exsistance as human the saying goes "all good things must come to an end".

[mistaspot1]

stupid hoomans!

[zonumb]

shit....i just bought a house boat there too.

[wtfisthisshyt]

O NOOOES

[erchipi]

Damm

:/

[thefelicer]

its heart breaking, that sea was one of the wonders of the world, with life forms founds no where else. and they destroyed it so they can farm cotton. and now those farms cannot grow anything because the salt dust from the lake bed has ruined the surrounding soil . truly a shame.

[G0D9]

ahhhhh i agree.........why do those people insist on finding ways to feeed their families.....because we all know that region if filled with economic opportunities.........stfu and get over your self......if the whole sea disappears and atleast one family is better of financially im happy with it........im sorry you wont have a chance to over there and have a little vacation and enjoy the wonder.......but get over yourself.

[shirtrippa69]

You both have good points. This is an example how the existence of humans has destroyed the ecosystems. But its not their fault that they had to result in the draining of the sea.

[MaZe741]

is this updated to 2009? ive learned about the aral sea in geography, I think it got even worse since then.

whats the timespan of this footage?

[rbsimmon]

The final image is from May 3, 2009. The full sequence, with an explanation, dates, and large images, is posted on NASA's Earth Observatory site.

[carlos1080i]

aww hell naww

[intemister]

salt water for irrigation?

[ericyan99]

the aral sea weirdly enough is accually a lake

[gianlucanders]

NOW its a lake...

[sega31098]

What do you mean now? It was always a lake. It was just a saltwater lake.

[STHFGDBY]

Why was it called the Aral sea then ?

[sega31098]

Because it was once a very big lake and people in the past didn't know how to tell between a lake and a sea other than freshwater or saltwater. It was once the world's second largest saltwater lake (behind the Caspian Sea) and the world's fourth largest lake or so.

[faolitaruna]

Now, it's a dessert.

[ImTheMostViewed]

Whachou want me to do about it?

[rbsimmon]

"A massive irrigation project in the Kyzylkum Desert of central Asia has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the continued decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of recovery in the Northern Aral Sea in recent years."

[dan428]

You guys don't know how to pause a video? Just grab the seek bar and change them as fast as you want to..

[undiesinabunch]

Aral Sea of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (Central Asia), has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the two rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects.

[quietthomas]

Thank you for explaining this vid.

[ojmardueno]

I agree, you should fill out the description box, or at least put a link to an article about the topic, and yea, you should also slow down the video, the images change way too fast.

[achampag]

and plz slow them down. you dont give the eye enough time to adjust b4 u go 2 the next pic

[achampag]

well at least this time you said irrigation was the cause. how about a link to an article about these things if you dont want to take the time to fill out the description?