THE SHRINKING ARAL SEA - Earth Matters
THE SHRINKING ARAL SEA: An Ecological Disaster 2. The Aral Sea splits. In the late 1980s, the Aral Sea split into a "Small" Aral Sea fed by the Syr Darya and a "Large" Aral Sea fed by the . Amu Darya. For several years, water flowed from the smaller to the larger body of water via a channel. Then in