Aral Sea Stopped Shrinking Says Russian Scientist | Science | RIA Novosti
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MOSCOW, June 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Aral Sea, which has been shrinking for almost half a century causing an environmental disaster in Central Asia, has finally stopped drying up, a Russian scientist said on Tuesday.
“The sea is currently close to a balance because its surface has shrunk so much that evaporation has gone down too, so that even the insignificant river and underground water flow balance the sea,” Pyotr Zavyalov of the Russian Academy of Science’s Oceanology Institute told a panel of scientists.