The Aral Sea, located in Central Asia, has been shrinking in surface area due to climate change and human activities. This shrinkage has caused a regional ecological crisis, significantly affecting ...

Satellite images gathered by NASA's Earth Observatory, using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard the agency's Terra satellite, show how dramatically the Aral Sea changed over time ...

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

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 ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 14. Central Asian countries adopted a final summary outlining practical steps for developing a UN program for the Aral Sea basin. The summary was adopted following the ...

Uzbekistan will place one of the world's most dramatic environmental transformations at the centre of its national pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Titled The ...

The European Union planted 27 000 trees on the dried seabed of the Aral Sea as a gift from 27 EU Member States to the people of the Republic of Karakalpakstan. 12 December, Tashkent, Uzbekistan – The ...

Few environmental disasters illustrate the consequences of human mismanagement as starkly as the fate of the Aral Sea. Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, it has lost roughly 90 ...

June 24 (Reuters) - The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has shrunk by 70 percent in recent decades in what environmentalists describe as one of the worst man-made ecological disasters.

KAZAKHSTAN, North Aral – on 27 April 2021, two saxaul greenhouses and the shadehouse were opened in Aral District, Kyzylorda Region, in the framework of the national demonstration project ...

MOYNAK, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the shrinking Aral Sea on Sunday and urged regional cooperation to tackle what environmentalists describe as one of the worst ...