Colorado River Delta
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The Colorado River Delta is the region where the Colorado River once flowed into the Gulf of California in eastern Mexicali Municipality in the north of the state of Baja California, in northwestern M
The region from orbit.
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Aral Sea
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The Aral Sea was an endorheic salt lake lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and had largely dried up into desert by 2007. It was in th
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…ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology. The U.N. designation is considered following a nomination by the nation in which the site is located. Aral Sea Official Upper Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve website…
The Aral Sea in 1989 (left) and 2014 (right)
The Syr Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi) was a species of fish possibly driven to extinction by the shrinkage of the Aral Sea.
The Ukrainian stickleback (Pungitius platygaster) was the only native species of the Aral Sea to survive its reduction and salinization.
The European flounder (Platichthys flesus) was a saltwater fish introduced to the Aral Sea.