The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an extraordinary geological ripple.

Samarkand Climate Forum, Karakalpakstan introduced the Aral Culture Summit to spotlight recovery, history, and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea.

The Aral Sea Basin, defined in red, straddles six countries in Central Asia. About 70 million people rely on the Basin's water resources, a population greater than Thailand, France, or South Africa.

By combining the power of art, culture, design and ecology, does the Aral Culture Summit have the potential to transform not just the landscape of crisis-hit Karakalpakstan, but even the way we ...

The Aral Sea's disappearance displaced 1.1 billion tons of water, causing Earth’s mantle to rise. A silent, human-made shift ...

By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm ...

Back then, the Aral Sea's two main sources of fresh water were the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, rivers that fed the salt lake with fresh water and maintained this basin in a mostly arid region.

a potential springboard for sustainable transformation and cultural renewal in the Aral Sea region, once the fourth-largest lake in the world and now often seen as a tragic symbol of environmental ...