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Article: Crossing the Oxus.(destruction of Aral Sea in Uzbekistan)(Brief Article)
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- Afterimage
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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I must have seen it from the air, as I flew in from Moscow, but I don't remember it. We were flying over the desert and the bare, scrubby land was beautiful and strange when seen from above. Long streams of dust billowed off the purple and maroon sands, creating huge spreading lines of dust clouds which gradually attenuated until they became invisible. Then we were over a strange, very shallow body of water, obviously in retreat, with enormous mud flats and little glistening spots of water. The shoreline formed arabesques of mud and water, a complicated pattern of dry and wet. The plane flew back out over the desert and suddenly we were over an area of lurid green, the ...