Resources

Chronology of the Dessication of the Aral Sea. German Department of Defense.
http://www.dfd.dlr.de/app/land/aralsee/chronology.html

Earth from Space: An Astronaut's Views of the Home Planet. 2000. "Aral Sea"
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=STS059-L22-140

Images:

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Ellis, William S., and Turnley, David, C. 1990. A Soviet Sea Lies Dying. NationalGeographic 177(2):73-93.

Glantz, Michael, ed, 1999. Creeping Environmental Problems and Sustainable Development in the Aral Sea Basin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Micklin, Philip, P. 1992. The Aral Crisis: Introduction to the Special Issue. Post-Soviet Geography 33(5): 269-282.

Micklin, Philip, P. and W. Williams. 1996. The Aral Sea Basin, New York: NATO.

New Scientist. 1989. Soviet cotton threatens a region's sea&emdash;and its children. New Scientist 124(1691): 22.

Perera, Judith. 1993. A sea turns to dust. New Scientist 140(1896): 24-27.

Perera, Judith. 1988. Where glasnost meets the greens. New Scientist 120(1633):25-26.

Rich, Vera. 1991. A new life for the sea that died? New Scientist 130(1763):15.

United Nations Environment Programme. 1992. World Atlas of Desertification. London: Edward Arnold.

USGS Earthshots: Satellite Images of Environmental Change
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/tableofcontents

USGS SIR-C Browse, Coverage map, and Scene Metadata
http://edcww.cr.usgs.gov/landaac…02086/lrlon=66.636154/result=13042

Visualing Earth: UCSD
http://visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_Int/aralseahtml/aral1.html

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