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Thursday, October 30, 2014

International donors pledge $3bn to save shrinking Aral Sea

This combination of NASA satellite images shows the Aral Sea in 2008 (L) and as of September 22, 2013 (R), lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south Leading international donor organisations have pledged $3 billion to help save the shrinking Aral Sea -- the worst man-made ecological catastrophe ever.




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