These satellite images show how humans made the Aral Sea …
2020年2月21日 · The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake, but an irrigation project drained nearly all the water. The consequences include the loss of a fishing industry, salt-laden dust affecting crops and human health, and an altered climate. A dam has increased water levels in a small part of the lake called the North Aral.
These pictures show how much the Caspian Sea is shrinking
2022年11月8日 · Research suggests that the level of the lake has been dropping for some time, as the chart below shows. These dropping levels are bad news for planet and people. For example, the Caspian Sea is the world's largest spawning ground for sturgeon and is home to the Caspian Seal - the only marine mammal that lives there.
How will climate change impact the Caspian Sea? - The World …
2021年1月5日 · By the end of the 21st century, the Caspian Sea is forecast to be nine metres to 18 metres lower. This could result in an 'ecocide' as devastating as the one in the Aral Sea, a few hundred kilometres to the east. Biodiversity could be destroyed and the Iranian coastal town of Ramsar, which depends on the sea, is becoming landlocked.
7 ways to break the fast fashion habit - and save the planet
2019年2月22日 · Intensive cotton farming in Central Asia is partly responsible for the drying up of the Aral Sea - once one of the four biggest lakes in the world, but now known as the Aralkum Desert. As the report says: “We are unwittingly wearing the fresh water supply of central Asia and destroying fragile ecosystems.”
Your view of the world is distorted. This interactive map will show …
2016年8月10日 · A few seconds clicking and dragging on this interactive map will change your view of the world forever. The map of the globe we all know is a trick of mathematics. It was designed to simplify navigation for sailors setting out on voyages of discovery centuries ago.
These are the world's most vital waterways for global trade
2024年2月15日 · The Suez Canal in Egypt connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and is a dividing line between Africa and Asia. The canal, which is at the opposite end of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden's Bab Al Mandeb strait, is the shortest maritime route from Europe to Asia and allows ships to avoid the long trip around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
This is how New Zealand is planning to tackle rising sea levels
2022年5月12日 · Rising sea levels are a big risk for New Zealand – the country has just published a national plan to tackle this and other climate threats. Globally, sea levels could rise another foot by 2050, warn scientists. Countries are introducing measures including early warning systems, sea walls and surge barriers.
Climate change: The state of melting glaciers on sea levels | World ...
2021年5月4日 · Similarly in the bottom map, green shows regions that have seen an increase in precipitation, and brown shows a decrease in precipitation. Change in glacier elevation (top), temperature (middle) and precipitation (bottom) between 2000-09 and 2010-19 in 19 glacierised regions, as a result of melting glaciers.
Sand mining: how it impacts the environment and solutions
2023年9月21日 · “If a river delta receives enough sediment, it builds itself above sea level in a natural reaction.” What can be done to avoid a sand crisis? While pressure on governments to regulate sand mining is increasing, more needs to be done to find alternatives for use in construction and for solving the world’s continuing housing crises.
What is desertification and why is it important to understand?
2024年9月26日 · In the 1960s, the area was covered by the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea. Since then, it has shrunk to a tenth of its former size, with only three small, highly salty lakes remaining. In Soviet times, its waters were used for irrigating a semi-desert region to grow cotton, leading to a drop in water levels.