Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there's actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?
It's a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.
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342345@feddit.de · 106 pts · 2y
Indeed. It's gone since 2018. It took men 70 years to drain it. There is a time lapse of It's last 18 years: Poof.
Now I'm sad.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
:-(
Stoneykins@mander.xyz · 46 pts · 2y
Ew you got some politicalcompassmemes on your post.
Otherwise good tho
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 44 pts · 2y
More like: 1989 (right) and 2014 (wrong)
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 2y
Apparently Kazakhstan is trying to do something to refill it in but there's actually some disputes about it because of how the repurposed water is being used elsewhere?
grue@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 2y
The whole reason it dried up is that the rivers that fed it got diverted for irrigation.
Yokozuna@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
It's a big spot on Google earth that is pretty visible even zoomed all of the way out, I found out about this while zooming around on it one day and noticing an oddly colored spot.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch · 12 pts · 2y
Now it's a toxic desert.
bleistift2@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
When I first read the title, I thought, “Great another oil spill”