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 ...

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 ...

The Aral Sea ... the weight of such a wide body of water without sinking slightly into the underlying hotter and weaker rocks.” What remains of the Aral Sea is a dust-blown basin, scattered ...

The Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest lake, was then hit by a severe drought that evaporated so much of its water the lake split in two in 1986. "Because the weight of the water in the ...

The Aral Sea ... the weight of such a wide body of water without sinking slightly into the underlying hotter and weaker rocks.” What remains of the Aral Sea is a dust-blown basin, scattered ...

In this second episode, writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Syr Darya River which feeds the still existing Aral Sea. There is hope that its water volume will increase. However, ...

When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a raw, deep sadness. "It felt like a real catastrophe," says the environmental expert, walking across the dried seabed ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

In an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save the North Aral Sea, a dam project was completed in 2005, with construction financed by the World Bank, helping to bring water back to northern areas.