Aralsea-1 (IMAGE)

Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)

Aralsea-1

Caption

The silting up of the Aral Sea and the desertification there is considered one of the biggest environmental disasters on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

Credit

Dietrich Althausen, TROPOS

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