Environmental changes, Aral region

Exploration of Environmental Changes in the Aral Region and the Aral Sea. 18... 

Windblown sulfates, typically as gypsum, are found in arid regions. Water utilization or agricultural changes can enhance the production of such dusts. The decreasing water volume in the Aral Sea has much enhanced the production of sulfate dusts over recent decades that has become associated with severe environmental problems (O Hara et al, 2000). 

By the 1980s it became clear that there was not a single component of the natural environmental conditions and not a single branch of agriculture and industry in the circum-Aral area that in the future could develop independently of the Aral Sea level drop and man-made desertification of the nearby territory. That is why the key research and design-survey works on the Aral issue included study of the changes in the natural enviromnent in this region and development of the scientific basis for the... 

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