T HE ARAL SEA has long been a byword for ecological disaster. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, it has been steadily ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and ...

Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov pose in front of an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Associated Press interviewed Shadilov ...

MUYNAK, UzbekistanMUYNAK, Uzbekistan — 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 ...

Explore the environmental consequences of unsustainable farming and irrigation in some of the world’s driest regions. This ...

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world in 1960, has seen a drastic decline, with only about 10% of its original size remaining today. This environmental disaster has profoundly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Aral Sea isn’t just an ecological nightmare — it’s a carbon bomb The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was ...

October 28, 2024 • Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores ...

Prior to 1960, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest inland water reservoir in the planet, with a surface area of 66,900 square km. 1960 is a key date because it was the last time that the sea’s water ...

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 ...

There are few more dramatic examples of humanity's careless treatment of the earth than the Aral Sea. The Aral's precipitous decline began in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union began using river water ...

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 enormous sea they relied on was ...