{"id":135999,"date":"2024-12-12T07:58:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/bringing-life-back-to-central-asias-desertified-aral-sea\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T05:58:10","slug":"bringing-life-back-to-central-asias-desertified-aral-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/bringing-life-back-to-central-asias-desertified-aral-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing life back to Central Asia\u2019s desertified Aral Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135999\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Once the world&#8217;s fourth-largest lake, much of the salty Aral had largely disappeared by the late 1970s, as the rivers feeding it were diverted for irrigation in the Soviet era to water cotton and rice fields. By 2010, the surface area had shrunk by more than 50,000 square kilometers (19,000 square miles). The impact on the environment has been devastating. Dramatically rising salinity levels have led to the disappearance of many of the more than 30 species of fish caught for commercial purposes. Now marked by sparse vegetation, violent sandstorms, summer temperatures of up to 42.7 degrees Celsius (109 Fahrenheit), and a landscape scarred by white salt streaks, the area has become known as Aralkum. It&#8217;s one of the world&#8217;s youngest deserts, already covering an area of 62,000 square kilometers. And it&#8217;s still growing.<\/p>\n<p>Zadneprovskaya (deputy manager of the Aral Sea Environmental Restoration Project in Central Asian Kazakhstan) and her team have been planting black saxaul trees on a 500-hectare (1,235-acre) plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and make the area more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Saxaul shrubs can stabilize the sand, helping to prevent soil degradation and reduce health impacts from inhaling potentially polluted dust. &#8221;These shrubs are unique. Their roots can hold up to 8,819 pounds (4,000 kilogramms) of sand,&#8221; says Zadneprovskaya, as she runs her hands along the plant&#8217;s spiny scales.<\/p>\n<p>With cancer, kidney disease, and infant mortality among the region&#8217;s worst health problems, creating &#8221;green belts&#8221; is an effective way to combat drift from salt and contiminated dust and improve public health. But saxaul alone won&#8217;t do the job. It is essential to integrate planting practices into landscape planning. &#8221;We have to decide what to do with the land where the shrubs are planted,&#8221; says Talgat Kerteshev of the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University. If the aim is to create pasture, the focus should be on fodder crops. And while saxaul can be used for grazing, it is not the main component of a dairy cow&#8217;s diet.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/the-aral-sea-from-lake-to-desert-to-forest\/a-70987224\">Deutsche Welle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/3-639\/\">Bringing life back to Central Asia&#8217;s desertified Aral Sea<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11705,17288,575,17289],"class_list":["post-135999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-aral-sea","tag-aralkum-desert","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-sapling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}