Rising from the dead.

• Position: World Watch Updates - Aral Sea - Brief Article

Between 1960 and 1990, the great Aral Sea of central Asia fell by more than 40 feet and lost two-thirds of its water, largely because the rivers that feed it were diverted upstream for irrigation. Now, the World Bank is financing a triage operation-construction of an eight-mile dike to restore the northern part of the sea (engineers are giving up on the larger southern part). Water from...