Dead lakes, dying seas: human-made natural disasters
This is the Aral Sea, which was once one of the four largest lakes in the world, until the Soviet Union diverted the rivers that fed it. Now full of stranded ships, it’s just one of the world’s dying lakes. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted the two rivers that fed the sea, and…
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M.G. Ellington - Science In My Fiction
When times get tough, science fiction pulls us through
We all go through tough times, but science fiction can be a big help in getting us through the worst of it — maybe more than other genres, argues geek blogger Being Ruth. Here are a few reasons why. Scifi Pulls Us Outside Ourselves One reason I mostly use pictures of the universe as my…
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