Aral ['ærәl]
Sea 咸海[苏联中亚细亚地区](旧译阿拉海
是一个大咸水湖)
- Mothers' milk is poisoned!" wrote Tulepbergen Kaipbergenov in the Karakapaki region south of the Aral Sea.
- Previewing its conclusions, in an interview following the expedition, Mr. Reznichenko stated that "as a biological object the Aral Sea has perished."
- "Not only is the sea dying, but people's patience too," the article said. "Public opinion in areas near the Aral is painfully concentrated on the fate of the sea.
- One of the direst problems is the Aral Sea south of the Urals.
- The problems with the Caspian Sea, which borders the Soviet Union and Iran and harbors most of the world's caviar-producing sturgeon, contrasted with the plight of the disappearing Aral Sea about 300 miles to the east.
- International donors yesterday pledged Dollars 31.4m (Pounds 20.6m) to study ways to stop the Aral Sea in central Asia drying up.
- The shrinking of the Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest lake, could prompt the Soviet Union to revive a plan to divert water into the sea from Siberian rivers, a U.S. analyst concludes.
- "The campaign has already begun," wrote Philip P. Micklin, professor in the geography department at Western Michigan University, in a survey of the Aral's problems in this week's issue of Science magazine, dated Friday.
- Drainage of rivers that flow into the Aral Sea, on the border of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, has lowered the level of the sea and made it one of the Soviet Union's top environmental concerns.
- Since 1960, the Aral Sea has lost half its surface area, the equivalent of almost two Lake Eries.