1·A visit to central Asia - to the shrinking and polluted Aral Sea, for example - provides evidence of that.
一次中亚细亚之行——比如奔赴正在收缩，并被严重污染的咸海——也会收集到此类证据。
2·Situated between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral was once the fourth largest lake on earth, as big as Ireland.
位于乌兹别克斯坦和哈萨克斯坦之间的咸海曾经是地球上的第四大湖泊，与爱尔兰一样大。
3·The draining of Kazakhstan's once-vast Aral Sea has made regional temperatures hotter in summer and colder in winter, and rain now rarely falls.
哈萨克斯坦曾经广阔的咸海的排干工程使得那里的夏天天气异常炎热、冬天天气异常寒冷，而且很少下雨的情况。
4·On Friday, the European Space Agency released before-and-after satellite photographs of the Aral Sea in 2006 and 2009.
星期五，欧洲航天局公布了2006年至2009年前后有关咸海的卫星照片。
5·Never the most hospitable of places, Karakalpakstan was then turned into a vast arena of destruction by the Aral Sea disaster.
卡拉卡尔帕克斯坦从来不是一个宜居的地方，由于咸海的生态灾难，这里变成了一个遭受到毁灭性破坏的辽阔区域。