T HE ARAL SEA has long been a byword for ecological disaster. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, it has been steadily ...
A generation ago, the vanishing of the Aral Sea became global shorthand for environmental desolation. Today the region has become a test bed for a resilient future. A thermal spring, visited by locals ...
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The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest inland lake, was drained dry. Now it’s a ticking carbon bomb
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on ...
MUYNAK, 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 communities it once ...
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How an entire ocean vanished from the map
Imagine living near the seaside your whole life, only for the ocean to literally walk away overnight. Residents along the ...
The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and ...
On the Aral Sea, graves rise above the dust. They're reminders of the life its waters once sustained
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 ...
About 90% of the Aral Sea has dried up. The exposed sediments have already released enormous amounts of carbon dioxide (748 megatons) since 1960. However, through restoration, the lake could once ...
Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too
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 ...
Tastubek is a small fishing village located on the coast of the Aral Sea. When the waters of the sea receded due to Soviet-era irrigation projects, life here effectively stopped. After the completion ...
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