The Disappearing Aral Sea - 1973 to 2020

This short video was created from Google Earth images extracted from their timeline.
I read about the catastrophic environmental issues affecting the Aral Sea and wanted to investigate this situation for myself.
Yes, its as bad as was reported!

[@ladzerty]

Beautiful! ❤

[@akrasy1]

How?

[@Rwlante]

Apparently, from the overuse of water for irrigation