{"id":246,"date":"2010-03-04T19:24:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=246"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:09:30","slug":"aral-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"aral sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Aral Sea in Central Asia? So a few years ago I read that the Aral Sea was losing water due to many decades of irrigation diversion and that it was smaller than you see on maps. Well, guess what, <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/aral_sea.php\">it&#8217;s gone<\/a>, as of a few months ago. You can wipe it off all the maps and globes, guys.<\/p>\n<p>August 2009:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/images\/aral_sea_20090816.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/Features\/WorldOfChange\/images\/aral\/aral_sea_20090816.jpg\" width=400\/><\/p>\n<p>Yo, Google Map, check your own satellite images.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=aral+sea&amp;sll=44.653024,58.974609&amp;sspn=8.221621,12.084961&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Aral+Sea,+Uzbekistan&amp;t=p&amp;ll=45.305803,59.589844&amp;spn=10.817966,18.676758&amp;z=5&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=aral+sea&amp;sll=44.653024,58.974609&amp;sspn=8.221621,12.084961&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=Aral+Sea,+Uzbekistan&amp;t=p&amp;ll=45.305803,59.589844&amp;spn=10.817966,18.676758&amp;z=5&amp;iwloc=A\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Aral Sea in Central Asia? So a few years ago I read that the Aral Sea was losing water due to many decades of irrigation diversion and that it was smaller than you see on maps. Well, guess what, it&#8217;s gone, as of a few months ago. You can wipe it off all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1829,1828,512,513,506,508,510,509,511,458],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aral-sea","tag-central-asia","tag-check","tag-diversion","tag-irrigation-diversion","tag-maps-and-globes","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-images","tag-view","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}