Zadneprovskaya and her team have been planting black saxaul trees on a 500-hectare (1,235-acre) plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and make the area more ...

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 ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... but sporadic outbreaks of plague afflict the surrounding region. As we continue toward the sea, we pass dozens of oil and natural gas ...