The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, continues to show signs of geological changes long after its environmental collapse. The geological research conducted recently shows that the dried ...
This piece originally appeared in SAVEUR’s Fall/Winter 2025 issue. See more stories from Issue 205. Like many in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous republic in western Uzbekistan, Klishbay Jumanyazov ...
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 ...
MUYNAK, Uzbekistan — The fierce windstorm that walloped this small defunct port in late spring stunned even a local ecologist long resigned to the devastation wrought by the disappearance of the once ...