A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

It once covered a whopping 68million square kilometers and had a bustling fishing industry - but a fateful decision has seen ...

The Uzbek portion of the sea, or the Southern Aral, is continuing to evaporate, creating a host of knock-on public health issues. The Kazakh government revival plan centers on achieving ...

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

By 1987 the Aral’s water level had dropped drastically, splitting it into two bodies of water: a northern sea, which lies in Kazakhstan, and a larger southern sea lying within Karakalpakstan.

But there are areas of the Large Aral Sea in southern Kazakhstan and neighboring Uzbekistan where the water will never return. In these places, there is a pressing need to create new ecosystems ...

A new satellite image from the European Space Agency reveals the ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake.

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 ...

and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea. Mention the Aral Sea or search for it online, and apocalyptic scenes appear. A lake once so vast it is still called a sea ...