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The Aral Sea Is Not Simply Gone

MISLEADING: The Aral Sea disappeared completely

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“The Aral Sea disappeared completely”

Misleading. The Aral Sea suffered one of the world's major environmental disasters, but its northern part in Kazakhstan has partially recovered through water-management projects while the wider basin remains severely damaged.

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