Efforts over the past seven years have expanded the surface area of the Aral Sea by 30%. Photo by Mentat Kibernes.
Not too long ago everyone had pretty much written off the Aral Sea as a lost cause. Soviet irrigation policies had diverted water from the Aral for so long that the sea was going to irreversibly dry up. You’ve probably seen photos of ships stranded in the sand, left high and dry as the waters receded, in An Inconvenient Truth. Though used as a symbol of climate change in that film, that particular connection is tenuous at best. Nonetheless the death of the Aral Sea is true env...
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