科学家们把咸海描绘成地球上生态环境最差的地方。
Scientists have described the Aral sea as the site of the worst ecological disaster on earth.
几年后，他仍对乌兹别克斯坦心生向往，于是回到了这个国家并写了一篇关于咸海消失的文章。
A few years later, still attracted to the country, he returned to Uzbekistan to write an article about the disappearance of the Aral Sea.
卫星图像显示咸海曾经是世界上第四大湖泊。
Satellite image of the Aral Sea used to be the fourth largest lake in the world
然而，咸海的南部依然一如既往。
The Southern Aral, however, still remains a shadow of its former self.
2000年的时候咸海的北部和南部水域就已经断开。
By 2000 the Northern and Southern Aral Sea had already separated.
残留的咸海还能得救吗？
咸海的干涸是由于汇入咸海的河流被过度使用。
咸海管理不善被认为世界最严重的环境灾难之一。
Its mismanagement is regarded as one of the world's worst environmental disasters.
拜科努尔位于锡尔河畔，靠近咸海，危机四伏。
Baikonur lies by the 16 Syrdarya River, dangerously close to the 17 Aral Sea.
也许最为重要的是咸海塔兹公司生产了80%的食用盐。
Most important, perhaps, one company, Aral Tuz, makes 80 percent of the edible salt.
世界水理事会援引南美洲拉普拉塔巴拉那河、咸海、约旦河和多瑙河为例。
The World Water Council cites the Parana La Plata in South America, the Aral Sea, the Jordan and the Danube as examples.
咸海扶持了兴旺的商业捕鱼业。1960年代大概有6万人从事这一行业。
The Aral Sea supported a thriving commercial fishing industry employing roughly 60,000 people in the early 1960s.
咸海扶持了兴旺的商业捕鱼业。1960年代大概有6万人从事这一行业。
The Aral Sea supported a thriving commercial fishing industry employing roughly 60, 000 people in the early 1960s.
幸亏有世界银行资助的一项水利枢纽工程，咸海的北端将被保留下来。
Thanks to a World Bank-funded dam project, the sea’s northern tip will be preserved.
化学成分的改变极大地改变了湖区的生态环境，导致咸海鱼类数量剧减。
That change in chemistry has led to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology, causing precipitous drops in the Aral Sea’s fish population.
现在，50年之后，咸海的水量仅仅只有改道工程最初开工时水量的10%。
Now 50 years later the water is at a dismal 10 per cent of its level when the projects first began.
星期五，欧洲航天局公布了2006年至2009年前后有关咸海的卫星照片。
On Friday, the European Space Agency released before-and-after satellite photographs of the Aral Sea in 2006 and 2009.
要查看更多有关咸海缩小的信息，请查看美国大学个案研究《咸海损失与棉花》。
For more details on the shrinking of the Aral Sea, please see the American University case study Aral Sea Loss and Cotton.
流沙悬浮物的发现，类似于咸海死海的物质，使得流引的流沙恐怖论无立足之地。
The discovery of quicksand's buoyant properties, akin to those of the salty Dead Sea, quashed this prevalent theory.
一次中亚细亚之行——比如奔赴正在收缩，并被严重污染的咸海——也会收集到此类证据。
A visit to central Asia - to the shrinking and polluted Aral Sea, for example - provides evidence of that.
位于乌兹别克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦之间的咸海曾经是地球上的第四大湖泊，与爱尔兰一样大。
Situated between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral was once the fourth largest lake on earth, as big as Ireland.
咸海的毁灭是二十世纪大型工程灾难，这个失误的规模太大了，只能从太空中捕捉其图片。
The destruction of the Aral Sea is one of the great engineering disasters of the 20th century, a mistake on a scale so vast that photographs from space are needed to capture it.
在1965年，每年大约有50立方公里淡水流入咸海，到20世纪80年代却几乎为零。
As recently as 1965, the Aral Sea received about 50 cubic kilometers of fresh water per year-a number that fell to zero by the early 1980s.
作为一个内陆湖，咸海位于乌兹别克斯坦与哈萨克斯坦之间，而且曾经是世界上第四大湖泊。
An inland lake, the Aral is found between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan and used to be the fourth largest lake in the world.
60年代，在前苏联开始实行灌溉项目前，咸海(The Aral Sea)是世界上第四大湖泊。
Before a Soviet Union irrigation project in the 1960s, the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake.
或许有些夸张，联合国开发计划署（UNDP）认为巴尔喀什湖将会像咸海那样变成一个肮脏的盐碱湖。
Perhaps exaggerating, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has said Lake Balkhash could turn into a salty mess, like the Aral Sea;
早期的卫星图像由美国地质调查局拍摄于1999、1987和1973年，也就是在咸海开始收缩之后不久。
Earlier satellite images were taken by the United States Geological Survey in 1999, 1987 and 1973, shortly after the sea started to shrink.
关于苏联从中亚的咸海引水灌溉其棉花田，或者澳大利亚引进兔子的这些改变气候的做法将会产生物理上和生物上的变化。
As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.
关于苏联从中亚的咸海引水灌溉其棉花田，或者澳大利亚引进兔子的这些改变气候的做法将会产生物理上和生物上的变化。
As with irrigating Soviet cotton fields from the Aral Sea in Central Asia or introducing rabbits to Australia, modifying the climate will have both physical and biological consequences.
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