Hunza Valley

MY OPINION

Despite its former vast size, the Aral Sea had relatively low indigenous biodiversity. However, the Aral Sea basin had an exceptional array of endemic fish subspecies (as well as the three endemic sturgeon species). Most of these still survive in the North Aral Sea, but some, such as the sturgeons, have been decimated or even driven to extinction by the lake's shrinkage. Native fish species of the lake included ship sturgeon (Acipenser nudiventris), all three Pseudoscaphirhynchus sturgeon species, Aral trout (Salmo trutta aralensis), northern pike (Esox lucius), ide (Leuciscus idus oxianus), asp (Aspius aspius iblioides), common rudd (Scardinius erythropthalmus), Turkestan barbel (Luciobarbus capito conocephalus), Aral barbel (L. brachycephalus brachycephalus), common bream (Abramis brama orientalis), white-eyed bream (Ballerus sapa aralensis), Danube bleak (Chalcalburnus chalcoides aralensis), ziege (Pelecus cultratus), crucian carp (Carassius carassius gibelio), common carp (Cyprinus carpio aralensis), Wels catfish (Silurus glanis), Ukrainian stickleback (Pungitius platygaster aralensis), zander (Sander lucioperca), European perch (Perca fluviatilis), and Eurasian ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus). All these fish aside from the stickleback lived an anadramous or semi-anadromous lifestyle.

The salinity increase and drying of the lake decimated the Aral trout, ruffe, Turkestan barbel and all sturgeon species, and dams now block their return and migration routes; the Aral trout and Syr Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi) may be extinct due to their restricted range.^[15][17] All other native fish barring the stickleback (which persisted during the lake's shrinkage and salinity increase) were also decimated, but have returned to the North Aral Sea following its recovery from the 1990s onwards.^[

ASTONISHING TECHNOLOGY
Anyone who grew up in the 20th century is probably amazed at the technological transformation that has occurred over the last few decades.
With that statement, I'm talking an era where video games were non-existent, color TV was still a pretty new invention and if you wanted to cook something fast, there was no such thing as a microwave. You had to use your stove and wait or throw together a cold sandwich. These innovations were pretty big deals when they did arrive.Those born in the late 20th and in the 21st century probably are used to rapid development, so some of these future technologies may not seem as far-fetched, however, others are likely to still be surprising.In the 1980s and early 1990s, cellphones were big clunky things. Fast forward to today, they are much smaller, sleeker and smarter. However, as smartphones continue to serve as computers, they have begun to grow larger again, which is an inconvenience. Being convenience is the name of the game in technology, there will likely be more transformation in how compact a phone can be. In the next few years, it is likely smartphones will become bendable. In 2013 it was reported LG developed the first flexible smartphone with limited consumer distribution in Korea. In 2014 Samsung has followed with its own model but kicked it up a notch by making it truly bendable. Rumor has it when this product is released, the gadget will be able to fully bend in half. Expect this tech to likely reach the consumer market sometime in 2015.While perhaps not truly mind-blowing, wearable technologies continue to make tech headlines, meaning all sorts of possibilities are in the making. While companies are still trying, to some extent, to get consumers to buy into these products, over time they'll likely become the norm. Smartwatches were expected to be the next best thing in recent years, and while slow to catch on, there is a market for them, perhaps since Apple released its version.In 2013 and 2014, many other new ideas were launched by various companies and it is probably only a