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Bookmark or Share- These pictures show how much the Caspian Sea is shrinking | World ...Research suggests that the level of the lake has been dropping for some time, as the chart below shows. These dropping levels are bad news for planet and people. For example, the Caspian Sea is the world's largest spawning ground for sturgeon and is home to the Caspian Seal - the only marine mammal that lives there.
- Blockchain can be the key that unlocks the SDGs. Here's howOne example is that of the Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The rivers that feed the lake have been diverted, causing it to shrink by 90% since the 1960s. As Hongbo Yang of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, has put it : 'The irrigation of the farmland helped to achieve one SDG goal, number two, that aims to enhance food ...
- Here's how satellite data helps the environment | World Economic ForumEnvironmental groups can monitor deforestation, the effects of climate change on ecosystems, and how other human activities like irrigation are shrinking bodies of water like Central Asia’s Aral Sea. And disaster managers, aid groups, scientists and anyone interested can monitor natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions and wildfires.
- Is fashion bad for the environment? | World Economic ForumCotton farming used up so much water from the Aral Sea that it dried up after about 50 years Image: NASA Fashion causes water-pollution problems, too. Textile dyeing is the world’s second-largest polluter of water, since the water leftover from the dyeing process is often dumped into ditches, streams, or rivers.
- Shaping the future of Central Asia | World Economic ForumThese challenges also demand improved regional cooperation. Scarce water resources, for example, have the potential to be both a brake on development and a source of tension. The shrinking over many decades of the Aral Sea, once one of the largest lakes on earth, has highlighted the devastating impact we can have on our own planet.
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