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Aral Sea basin - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...  The Aral Sea basin includes the Syr Darya and Amu Darya, the Tedzhen ... Before 1960, the Aral Sea ranked as the world's fourth largest lake, after the ..... In 1999, Tajikistan ranked third in the world for hydropower development, after the United States and the Russian Federation. .... All commercial fishing ceased in 1982.
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BBC News - Waiting for the sea  Feb 25, 2015 ... Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one ... The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea, and Lakes Superior and Victoria. ... These big ships could not reach shallow docks when the sea started shrinking. ... But the rain stopped.
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Watch one of the world's biggest seas disappear: Nasa releases ...  Sep 29, 2014 ... It was once the world's fourth biggest sea, a vast lake in the middle of ... The lake they made, the Aral Sea, was once the fourth largest in the world. ... Consequently, concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water. The Aral Sea supported a thriving commercial fishing industry...
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Aral Sea - Wikipedia  The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake lying between Kazakhstan (Aktobe and Kyzylorda ... The shrinking of the Aral Sea has been called "one of the planet's worst ... The region's once-prosperous fishing industry has been essentially destroyed, .... In 1960, the Aral Sea had been the world's fourth-largest lake, with an area...
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The Aral Sea Crisis  In the last 60+ years the Aral Sea has suffered irreparable damage from an ... century it was the world?s fourth largest saline lake, and contained 10grams of salt per liter. ... In normal conditions, the Aral Sea gets approximately one fifth of its water ... Smaller lakes within the Aral Sea that have stopped being fed by river flows...
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Russia explores old nuclear waste dumps in Arctic - BBC News  Jan 25, 2013 ... Russia's drive for Arctic oil and gas is complicated by the presence of old nuclear ... BBC navigation ... In a statement to the BBC, Exxon Mobil said that before drilling ... With international help Russia did manage to lift the wreck of the Kursk submarine after it sank in the Barents Sea during exercises in 2000.
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Lakes - 2 | Britannica.com  Results 1 - 100 of 274 ... Alakol, Lake salt lake in Kazakhstan, 110 miles (180 km) east of ... Formed by damming the Tuma River just north of Jinotega city, ... Aral Sea a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. ... Situated at 515 ft (157 m) below sea level, it is the lowest point in Africa. ..... It is 60 feet (18 m) below ocean level.
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Reminiscences of the Bering Sea Arbitration - JStor  which had arisen between those countries respecting the preservation of the valuable herd of fur seals of the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea. ... lying east of the water boundary line referred to; with pelagic sealing on the ... Soon after the acquisition of Alaska in 1867 Congress enacted wise laws ...... Mr. Phelps closed.
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The Russian Lake that Holds One-Fifth of the World's Freshwater  Aug 26, 2013 ... It's also been called the clearest lake on Earth. In summer, the lake's water is all pristine melted ice from the surrounding Siberian mountains,...
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Bering Strait - World Atlas  Map of Bering Strait - Bering Strait Map, World Strait Locations ... This strait separates the United States and Russia by 58 miles (85 km), with a water depth that...
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Geography - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Sitka This Russian capital of Alaska was originally called New Archangel ... Salton sea Once part of the Gulf of California, it's now the largest natural lake entirely ..... Oyster Island, it became part of the Statue of Liberty nat'l monument in 1965.
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The most inconvenient seal  Tetrapod Zoology - ScienceBlogs  Jun 15, 2010 ... How the hell did seals get into Lake Baikal? ... populations of Ringed seals Phoca hispida in Lake Saimaa (P. h. saimensis) and Lake Ladoga .... There are big lakes found between the Aral Sea and Lake Baikal, such as Lake...
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Baltic maritime trade (c. 14001800) - Wikipedia  As the League began to fragment, Lbeck and the Wendish coastal towns became isolated, and trade routes...
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WATER POLLUTION IN RUSSIA | Facts and Details  Sewage and industrial waste are dumped directly into rivers. ... Pollution in the Caspian Sea has badly damaged the fishing there. ... Soviet leaders took little action to protect the nation's inland bodies of water or surrounding ... Water entering the Volga, for example, used to flow from one end to the other in 50 days and...
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Lake Ladoga, Russia | Ladoga Lake Map, Facts & Fishing | Lakepedia  Lake Ladoga: The Largest Lake in Europe ... Country, Russia ... Lake Ladoga, located in the North-Western part of Russia, is the largest lake in Europe, ... Ladoga separated entirely from the Baltic Sea during the middle ages. ... Between 1812 and 1940 the lake and its surroundings were shared by Russia and Finland, but...
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List of lakes by volume - Wikipedia  This article lists lakes with a water volume of more than 100 km, ranked by volume. ... Baikal  Russia, Siberia, 31,722 km2 (12,248 sq mi), 23,600 km3 (5,700 cu mi) ... Ladoga  Russia, 17,700 km2 (6,800 sq mi), 908 km3 (218 cu mi) ... In 1960, the Aral Sea was the world's twelfth-largest known lake by volume, at 1,100 km3...
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Name the world's largest saltwater lake, which has traditionally been ...  Mar 2, 2014 ... Name the world's largest saltwater lake, which has traditionally been a major source of sturgeon for caviar.
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23:00 Russians boldly go to the bottom of the world's deepest lake  Jul 29, 2008 ... Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and holds the largest ... which will involve about 160 dives over the next two years, will have an ... Lake Baikal, known as the blue eye of Siberia, is considered one of the ... In winter, when the lake's surface is frozen, it is possible to see 40 feet down into the lake.
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Lake Baikal - Wikipedia  Lake Baikal is a rift lake in Russia, located in southern Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water ... The bottom of the lake is 1,186.5 m (3,893 ft) below sea level, but below this...
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Extreme Lakes - Lake Scientist  Over time, the lowest levels of the lakes become super-saturated with CO2. ... Lake Baikal holds many records; in addition to being the largest lake in the world by ... lakes does not flow out to the ocean and are often very salty  much saltier...
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Ensenada Fishing Reports and Sportfishing Vacation Information  Considering the fact that the large and bustling port city of Ensenada has been ... billed itself as the Yellowtail Capital of the World--are long gone, but nevertheless, ... happened at the north end of town, in the neighborhood known as El Sauzal, .... 26, 2006, Ivan Villarino, Vonny's Fleet, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.