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 collapse of the Aral Sea is one of the largest man-made environmental ... This former amusement park, which is one of the only green spaces in the city, will be transformed into a community ...

When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a ... Alimbetova, 58, is from Aralsk, a small city about 74 miles from base camp. She first saw the Aral when she ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

An emergent initiative dedicated to the social and environmental transformation of the Aral Sea region through art, culture, design and science debuts 4-6 April 2025. To be inaugurated during the ...

In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. French writer and traveller Cédric Gras journeys through the region to understand why. Along the way he visits spectacular ...

In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. In this first episode, French writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Amu Darya River, from the dry plains ...

Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake first split into smaller lakes, until most of its original surface had ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the ...