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...terrorism will take the U.S.-led coalition to some far-flung frontiers, but probably none more desolate than the southern shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Once a balmy oasis of apricot groves, fields of watermelon and rivers of fish so fat that each could feed a family, this is now a poisoned desert of salt and brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges...
...being released because of their scientific value in environmental studies. Gore called the declassified photos "a gold mine of hitherto unavailable data." Four of the previously top-secret shots were unveiled today, showing a Soviet military air field, another bomber base with jets pictured, a Russian volcano and the Aral Sea. Many will be available on the Internet...
...being released because of their scientific value in environmental studies. Gore called the declassified photos "a gold mine of hitherto unavailable data." Four of the previously top-secret shots were unveiled today, showing a Soviet military air field, another bomber base with jets pictured, a Russian volcano and the Aral Sea. Many will be available on the Internet...
Like the rest of the world, Central Asia and East Asia were experiencing a population boom, though the great Bronze Age civilizations of India, Japan and China were at least a millennium away. Nomadic hunters and fishermen appeared for the first time along the shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried...
...much break new ground as organize a wide variety of material and experience to state the case of environmental urgency and the need for change, for what he calls a "Global Marshall Plan." He has digested books, made friends with experts and traveled. Gore went, for example, to the Aral Sea in Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted in an ill-considered irrigation project to grow cotton. Gore traveled to the vanishing Amazon rain...