Once Written Off for Dead, the Aral Sea Is Now Full of Life

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/ ^ | 3/16/18 | Dene-Hern Chen

[BBell]

I remember when the Aral sea was written off as never being able to be restored. I guess someone was wrong about that.

There is no mention of the biological weapons test site on Vozrozhdeniya Island. Some scary stuff went on there.

Some nice pictures at the site.

[BBell]

Workers process fish at a plant in Aralsk, Kazakhstan. PHOTOGRAPH BY TAYLOR WEIDMAN

A worker prepares fish for smoking. PHOTOGRAPH BY TAYLOR WEIDMAN

[Ciaphas Cain]

The Aral Sea is brutal proof to any extraterrestrials who might casually pass by the Earth that communism does not work and can only destroy.

I sincerely never imagined that it might be anywhere close to recovering.

[BBell]

There were a lot of places in the U.S. written off that are now beautiful and teeming with life. Nature, with or without a little help from man, is still mysterious in it’s self healing. I’m sure a lot of envirowackos would disagree.

[WayneS]

“The people destroyed the sea and then nature took revenge on the people,” said Madi Zhasekenov, the director of the Aralsk Regional Museum and Fishermen Museum.

“The People”, eh? It seems to me it was mostly Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev who destroyed the Aral Sea.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Lake Erie, for example.

Interesting that the pike-perch is considered an invasive species here, and fishery experts in the U.S. are worried about it getting established here and wreaking havoc on the native walleye population.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

A walleye is a natural cross between a pike and a perch. How is the pike-perch different?

[ptsal]

bkmk Aral Sea

[BBell]

I remember visiting Lake Erie about 40 years ago when I was young. I thought I would go swimming but one look at the water and I changed my mind quickly. Lake Erie has come a long way since. So has the Ohio river and East river.

[Deaf Smith]

Will have to wait for the vertic on the Salton Sea in Kaifornee.

[Deaf Smith]

/ verdict

[DAC21]

Is this the Sea that retreated with hundreds of rust buckets high and dry?

[alpo]

The Salton Sea was formed by a levee break.
It has no natural supply of fresh water besides rain.

[broken_clock]

Is this the Sea that retreated with hundreds of rust buckets high and dry?

Yes that’s the one. I’m happy to hear the Aral is recovering. The last photos were of pinkish water and as you stated, a rusting fleet miles away from shore.

[Deaf Smith]

Well, it has been around only 113 years.

[BBell]

Yep.

[Fred Nerks]

A study in contrasts...

[alpo]

Just a big mud puddle.

Even LA didn’t want to suck it dry like the lakes
they drained in the eastern Sierra.

[lepton]

Yup. Communism was one of the most destructive economic/political systems ever - certainly by size.

Saddaam Hussein was pretty bad too.

[Truthoverpower]

Nature is unbelievable
Man is no match even though he is haughty and proud
A good lesson in communism
CHINA is another. They poison their people daily and ruin the air water lakes everything
Their KARMA is coming to thrm NOW
the lying cheating ride is OVER with us