ARAL SEA: WORLD'S 4TH LARGEST SEA NEARLY VANISHES IN LESS THAN 50 YEARS Catastrophic planning under the Soviet Union's irrigation plan for central Asia led to the Aral Sea being nearly entirely drained of water from rivers feeding into it. The world's fourth largest sea has nearly disappeared in less than 4 decades, and experts predict that without a comprehensive and sustained effort to save it, the rest will dry up by 2020. Journeyman Pictures looks at the plight of the once port-city of Aralsk, and of a region that once depended on fishing but now looks like desert. In Kazakhstan, a dam project is being credited with raising water levels by as much as 3 meters. Much more work would need to be done across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan if a real restoration is to occur. RELATED VIDEO Aral Sea nearly gone Tiben glaciers melt Patagonia dams FOLLOW UP AT SENTIDO'S ENVIRONMENT SECTION :: forest habitats, biodiversity threatened by unsustainable building... :: coming global water resource crisis... Embedded video content courtesy of YouTube

Sentido anticipates increasing convergence between moving and broadcast media and the static, readable internet. It is with this in mind that we have begun planning the launch of a "Sentido TV" digital platform for online posting and reader download of moving news footage and reporting.

Sentido's aim to extend its service into broadcast format multimedia stems from the belief that information is valuable in itself and that providing information over multiple channels liberates the audience that consumes such information. Sentido will not reduce its textual offerings, but will provide enhanced complementary audio-visual coverage of key stories.