A massive stranded ship on land – the world’s fourth-largest lake turns into a desert
ByMOOKJingdianjia (Attractions Expert)Jun(e)Compiled & Reported
Due to factors such as the greenhouse effect, the world’s climate has begun to change dramatically, and nature’s retaliation could strike at any time. Already, many natural environments such as islands and lakes are starting to disappear, and human-induced indirect factors are gradually causing harm to many natural wonders. Located in Central Asia and spanning Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now also on the verge of vanishing into a desert.
The Aral Sea in 1985, once the world’s fourth-largest lake (Image source / Wikipedia)
Satellite image from 1997 shows the shrinking Aral Sea (Image source / Wikipedia)
Comparison images of the Aral Sea, left in 1989 and right in 2014 (Image source / Wikipedia)
In the past, farmers excessively extracted water for irrigation, and now the Aral Sea has turned into barren wasteland. Today, efforts are underway to restore the lake. After drying up, the Aral Sea split into three residual lakes, two of which have become too salty for fish to survive. Once-busy fishing boats have also disappeared from the Aral Sea, and former port cities have declined. Large areas of seabed have been exposed and dried, and wind erosion has blown salt and toxic substances into populated areas, causing serious health problems.
A stranded ship on what was once the Aral Sea, near the Kazakhstan region (Image source / Wikipedia)
The Aral Sea desert has become a ship graveyard (Image source / Wikipedia)
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