The Shrinking Aral Sea - Uzbekistan

• Length: 13:23
• View Count: 46727
• Author: journeymanpictures

July 2001 For 50 years Soviet leaders diverted the rivers which feed the sea to irrigate cotton. And when it became clear that the land wasn't suited for the thirsty crop the planners simply increased the use of hazardous chemicals. "It is the world's largest man- made environmental disaster",...

Moynaq, Uzbekistan - former Aral Sea fishing port

• Length: 1:59
• View Count: 14338
• Author: jablona1984

30 years ago Moynaq was one of two biggest Soviet fishing harbours at the Aral Sea (the second was Aralsk in Kazakh SSR). Town was prospering with developed fish-processing industry. Unfortunately, because of redirecting two biggest tributaries of the Aral Sea: Amu Darya and Syr Darya into...

Aral Sea Catastrophe

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• View Count: 113465
• Author: debashir

Death of Aral Sea, winds rise and spread the bottom salt on hundreds of kilometers around. Aral a once-large saltwater lake straddling the boundary between Kazakstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south. The shallow Aral Sea was formerly the world's fourth largest body of inland water. It...

the shrinking Aral Sea

• Length: 0:24
• View Count: 75965
• Author: mirrormundo

an animation of the shrinking of the aral-sea (uzbekistan & kazakhstan) in the period of 1960 till now, caused by irrigation for the cotton monoculture and rendering central asia an area of environmental disaster, health problems and political instability. Also see the documentary on youtube,...

Uzbek schoolkids singing at the aral sea

• Length: 0:54
• View Count: 1138
• Author: Snytsnaggen

Uzbek Schoolchildren singing in honour to russian warheroes at the shore of the dried out Aral Sea, Uzbekistan.

Uzbekistan - Rescuing the Aral Sea (Presented by Mira'zam

• Length: 16:25
• View Count: 61
• Author: UzbekEconomy

Aral Sea, Cotton, Environmental Disaster, Lethal Pesticides

• Length: 1:53
• View Count: 2711
• Author: haimasoph

Other videos about disastrous cotton industry www.youtube.com Uzbekistan is the second largest exporter of cotton in the world, selling over 800000 tonnes of cotton every year. Europe is its major buyer. But while the former Soviet Republic is at the forefront of global cotton production, its...

The Aral Sea Catastrophe and energy security

• Length: 2:8
• View Count: 1167
• Author: FilmAt11tv

The Aral Sea, once one of the largest inland seas in the world, has all but vanished thanks to poor environmental management by the countries on its shores, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Now, however, efforts to restore the sea have sprouted, at least on the Kazakh side. The Uzbeks, on the other...

Aral Sea Wrecks | Moynak, Uzbekistan

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• View Count: 141
• Author: robhdpdroideris

A collection of Still Images taken in Moynak, Uzbekistan.

The Aral Sea story

• Length: 3:7
• View Count: 18809
• Author: airemaye

I did this for a final project in my international relations class. I'm quite interested in Central Asia and the Aral Sea region, so I did this to teach people a little bit about what's happened there in the past 50 years. This story really shows how much of an impact humans can have on the...