B rutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.When ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, March 17. The Samarkand Climate Forum will take place on April 4-5, 2025, bringing together global ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

Three Kazakh fisheries officials have driven down from the Aral Sea in a big Soviet-era truck to supervise the efforts to find the lost fish. One of them, Tynysbek Barakbayev, leans against the ...

Barsa-Kelmes was an island in the Aral Sea. It takes its name from the Kazakh phrase 'the land of no return', and it is steeped in legends of paranormal phenomena. One thing is for sure ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

This achievement underscores the project’s critical role in addressing environmental and agricultural challenges caused by the shrinking of the Aral Sea and its alignment with global sustainability ...

Stacey Dooley is driven across the seabed, now reduced almost entirely to dust.