Posted on 08/10/2022 9:18:50 AM PDT by Thistooshallpass9
The Aral Sea was victim to the worst manmade ecological disaster in history. Now part of it is coming back to life, and the restoration has implications for the whole world.
That’s not necessarily good news. The Soviets had a biological weapons dump on an island in the Aral Sea. The idea was since it was on an island, wildlife couldn’t get in there and bring a weaponized pathogen back to the general world. Now it’s not an island. And the bio weapons are still there. And now wildlife can get into the dump, and out again.
Quick, someone call China. Tell them that there’s more Bio-Kooties for them to play with in Wuhan.
The south aral sea is still dead. Bald and Bankrupt went there last year, and it was rusted ships lying in a desert.
I think you got that backwards. Until now, the island wasn’t an island anymore and any land based animal could have accessed the facilities.
Now water based animals may be different.
We keep forgetting that our time is the blink of an eye. We are only significant as long as we live.
Besides it looks like Camp Lejeune was sitting on a biohazard dump.
Must be from Global Warming! Yay!
https://www.science.org/content/article/north-aral-sea-once-near-death-coming-back-life
An ambitious restoration project is bringing back fish—and fishermen—to the North Aral Sea in Kazakhstan, National Geographic reports. The Aral Sea was once one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, supplying tens of thousands of tons of fish every year. But after the Soviet Union diverted away rivers for agriculture, the sea became saltier, killing off fish and destroying the fishing industry. Today the lake has split into two and is only a 10th its original size. But freshwater fish are beginning to return, thanks to an $86 million project financed by the World Bank that saw construction of a new dam and dykes. The fishing industry is beginning to thrive again, too, though experts warn that overfishing could undo the good work.
“Besides it looks like Camp Lejeune was sitting on a biohazard dump.”
I went to college on top of a huge chemical weapons dump from WWI. American University, in Washington DC. Google it.
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