Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea is now a barren wasteland. This is the story of its dramatic collapse—one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

The team crossed Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan by plane, train and car to go to the remote sides of the Aral. While there, they documented how climate change is further impacting lives of those in the ...

Today, in lieu of the Aral Sea, there is a desert peppered with abandoned, rusted ships. | Credit: Eddie Gerald/Getty Images ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—it was once the fourth largest saline lake in the world. But since the 1960s, it has been shrinking because water from the ...

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 ...

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 ...