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

But then a seedling of something bigger ... plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and make the area more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years he watched the Aral Sea’s demise firsthand. “When they added even more irrigation canals in the 1960s, it was like the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back,” he said.

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 ...

The Aral Sea straddles ... center of the sea. The research team used the data they obtained to create simulations showing the initial depression of the rock below the lake and then as it has ...

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 ...