Climate change 26 lakh years old Aral Sea Disappeared In 50 Years says nasa report

NASA has shown through a picture a shocking example of how climate change is changing the face of the Earth. Within a few years an entire ocean disappears from the earth! Would you believe? it had been! January 2024 is said to be the second consecutive month when the global temperature has been estimated to be above normal. In fact, it has taken the global average temperature above the threshold of 1.5 degrees. 1.5 degrees is the limit above which if the Earth warms, it will have disastrous consequences.

How global warming can harm the Earth can be estimated from a photo shared by NASA. There used to be a sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, whose name was Aral Sea. This sea was spread over 68 thousand square kilometers. It was the fourth largest water body in the world which was surrounded by land on all sides. But it completely dried up by 2010! NDTV reports that it began drying up in the 1960s when the rivers that feed it were diverted for Soviet irrigation.

NASA's Earth Observatory has presented a complete report related to the Aral Sea. According to which, in 1960, the Soviet Union had diverted the two major rivers of this region – Syr Darya and Amu Darya – for irrigation so that water could be given to the cotton fields and other crops built in the desert. After which the Aral Sea started drying up.

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Aral Sea was formed about 2.6 million years ago when two rivers changed their course of flow. When the ocean was at its full size, it was spread over a distance of 435 kilometers from north to south, and 290 kilometers from east to west. As soon as the irrigation project came into existence, the ocean started drying up and all its water evaporated. Kazakhstan also made a last ditch effort to save this old water source. The country built a dam from north to south. But the entire ocean could not be filled with water. Now water is visible only in a small part of it.