Central Eurasian Environmental and Aral Studies (CEEAS) Research Group
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Aral Sea in the News
Old Farming Habits Leave Uzbekistan a Legacy of Salt:
New York Times, June 2008
President Karimov Voices Environmental Concern:
Central Asian Caucasus Institute, September 2007
Aral Sea's Return Revives Withered Villages:
Washington Post, July 2007
Kazakhs Get Loan to Save Aral Sea:
BBC News, April 2007
Dam Project Aims to Save Aral Sea:
BBC News, April 2007
Return of the Aral Sea:
Disover, September 2006
As a Sea Rises, So Do Hopes for Fish, Jobs and Riches:
New York Times, April 2006
Arctic to Aral. How Much Electricity Would the Pumps Require?
EcoWorld, September 2005
Release the Rivers: Let the Volga & Ob Refill the Aral Sea:
EcoWorld, September 2004
Kazakhs 'To Save North Aral Sea':
BBC News, October 2003
$85 Million Project Begins for Revival of the Aral Sea:
New York Times, August 2003
South Aral Sea 'Gone in 15 years':
New Scientist, July 2003
In Pictures: Aral Sea Tragedy:
BBC News, May 2001
Time to Save the Aral Sea?
U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, September 1998
The Aral Sea Crisis:
BBC News, March 1998
Developers Turn Aral Sea Into a Catastrophe:
New York Times, December 1988
Eurasianet.org, late 1990s
The Aral Sea: Back from the Brink?
UNESCO
Non-Governmental Organizations Working on Regional and Environmental Issues
The Regional Environmental Centre for Central Asia. Environmental NGOs in Central Asia. 2003.
Academic Articles, Reports, Book Links & Workshop Proceedings
Environmental Problems of Central Asia and Their Economic, Social and Security Impacts (EPCA & ESSI); a Nato Advanced Research Workshop. Presentation Slides and Abstracts. October 2007.
IFAS, AsicAral, UNEP. State of Environment of the Aral Sea Basin (includes water resources, climate change, air quality, biodiversity, land resources, toxic pollution, waste, fish resources, maps). September 2000.
Erika Weinthal in Foreign Policy in Focus. Central Asia: Aral Sea Problem. March 2000.
Kobori, Iwao and Michael H. Glantz, Eds. Central Asian Water Crisis: Caspian, Aral and Dead Seas. (includes: 1) Creeping Environmental Problems in the Aral Sea Basin; 2) The Aral Sea and Socio-Economic Development; 3) Satellite Images; 4) Voices from the Region). March 1998.
Glazovsky, Nikita F in Jeanne X. Kasperson et al., Eds. The Aral Sea Basin from Regions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments. 1995.
Ciesin (Ciesin reproduced the paper with the permission from the author, Philip Mickin). Dessication of the Aral Sea: a Water Management Disaster in the Soviet Union. 1988.
Aral Sea Studies
Dr. Daene C. McKinney (Professor at University of Texas at Austin). Hydrology of Regional Environmental Conditions. December 2006.
Antipova, Elena, Alexi Zyryanov, Daene McKinney and Andre Savitsky. Optimization of Syr Darya Water and Energy Uses. Water International. Volume 27, Number 4, Pages 504–516, December 2002.