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Nature 412, 756 (23 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35090704

Ecologists plot to turn the tide for shrinking lake

Quirin Schiermeier

The Aral Sea is dying. Researchers have given up hope that the central Asian lake — which was the fourth-largest in the world before intensive Soviet agriculture diverted the rivers that feed it — can ever be restored.