In the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear incident , the international community established an exclusion zone of 30 km around the site to protect the public. The exclusion zone has closed off 1,600 square miles of land to human in habitation. 30 years after the incident the area still has remained untouched though there is … Continue reading A Beautiful Radioactive Wilderness
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Week 10 Posts
Lake Baikal: A Russian Environmentalists Dream
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Lake Baikal is one of the world’s oldest and deepest lakes. It is more than 5,000 feet deep and stretches for more than 400 miles near the south part of Siberia. This lake is crystal clear and known for the pristine water quality and abundant life forms that exist within its’ waters. However, the lake […]
Week 6 Posts
Now you Sea me, now you don’t: the Fergana Canal
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Stalin’s quest for economic progress created massive upheaval across Soviet society in the 1930s. However, people were not only victims of the era. Once the fourth largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea also fell victim to the tumultuous 1930s. One of the greatest ecological disasters of the twentieth century, the desiccation of the Aral Sea, started with the greatest … Continue reading Now you Sea me, now you don’t: the Fergana Canal
