“The Quiet Chernobyl” : The Devastation of the Aral Sea
A Soviet-era ecological disaster still unfolding today
5 min readJul 22, 2020
The Aral Sea used to be the fourth-largest lake in the world. Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it was about as big as Ireland. It has now shrunk to a tenth of its original size and is slowly becoming part of the desert landscape.
