Wednesday, 1 October 2014

World's fourth largest sea dried up completely: NASA

World's fourth largest sea dried up completely: NASA


Aral Sea - the giant lake between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south - has dried up completely, says NASA. In the early 1900s, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. Today, the vast lake - formed 5.5 million years ago in Central Asia - in the middle of the Kyzylkum desert has shrunk to a level where water is no more visible to the eyes, revealed a series of images from Nasa's Terra satellite.

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