Restoration efforts including a dam and water use controls are helping Kazakhstan revive part of the shrinking Aral Sea. View ...

Once the world’s fourth-largest inland sea, the Aral has lost more than 90% of its volume since the 1960s and is now, largely ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Brushing the dust from his hat and lying on the floor inside his home, Ali Shadilov recalls how he and other fishermen used to laugh at town elders who warned that the ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living ...

The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, ...

Imagine living near the seaside your whole life, only for the ocean to literally walk away overnight. Residents along the ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...

ARALSK, Kazakhstan (AP) — In the middle of the vast desert that surrounds what is left of the Aral Sea, graves stand as stark reminders — of communities that once thrived, of the powerful body of ...

Anson Mackay received funding from INTAS between 2003-2005 to research water level change in the Aral Sea over recent millennia. The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new ...

Dramatic satellite imagery illustrates the radical transformation that the Aral Sea has undergone over the past 15 years. The Aral Sea, which spans the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, used ...