Aral Sea

Deforestation is leading us toward a world without forests, where animals won’t be able to survive.The primate population is declining and many might have to live in captivity to guarantee their survival.Glaciers have been melting at twice their normal rate since the turn of the century.An oil leak could be just a technical failure for us, but birds will need help to be able to fly free again.Everyone…

A tumultuous discussion raged in the hall of Mstislav III “The Old” Romanovich, the Grand Prince of Kiev, in March 1223. An embassy of Turkic-speaking Polovtsian nomads humbly stood before the throne of the Russian prince. The embassy had arrived earlier in the day bearing rich gifts that included a bounty…

UPSC IAS Prelims Exam 2020 is just around the corner. Aspirants are meticulously preparing to qualify the first stage of the IAS selection process. Environment and Ecology section covers a significant part of the prelims paper and 10-12 questions have been repeatedly asked in the past 5 years prelims exam.…

Get 35 Questions on Geography for UPSC IAS Prelims 2020 preparation. In the UPSC Civil Service Exam 2019, 12 questions were asked from the Indian and World Geography. After a careful and curative analysis of past 3 years’ UPSC IAS Prelims paper, we discovered that 6 questions were asked from…

Photo: Solmaz Daryani/Maximilian Mann (RFE/RL Graphics) An Iranian photojournalist claims her work has been "hijacked" by a World Press Photo Award nominee. After the finalists for the 2020 World Press Photo awards were announced in February, Iranian photographer Solmaz Daryani felt a flash of déjà vu. German photographer Maximilian Mann…

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Reaching what is left of the Aral Sea will take a long time no matter where you choose to depart from. Located in a remote corner of Central Asia between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the lake that was once the fourth largest in the world has been receding for the past…

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