The Aral Sea: The Toxic Soviet Sea

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Source/Further reading:

Photoessay documenting the changes in Kazakhstan: https://avauntmagazine.com/fis....hing-camels-of-the-a
How Kazakhstan is reviving the sea, while Uzbekistan is killing it: https://www.bbc.com/future/art....icle/20180719-how-ka
The second phase of the Kokaral dam: https://kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/s....ociety/page_203237_r
Nat Geo’s take: https://www.nationalgeographic.....com/magazine/2015/0
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Aral-Sea
The view on the ground (BBC podcast): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02k871g
Virgin Lands Campaign: https://www.rbth.com/multimedi....a/history/2017/08/16
Map of the Aral Sea changing over time: https://earthobservatory.nasa.....gov/world-of-change/
The Aral Sea in the Medieval Period: https://www.researchgate.net/p....ublication/225573961
Child Mortality rates by country, 1990-2018: https://www.unicef.org/media/6....0561/file/UN-IGME-ch