The Aral Sea is drying out, one of the most severe ecological disasters caused by humans. The region has been devastated, but ...

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 ...

The loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. Can an ambitious project to plant millions of ...

The United Nations Development Program calls the destruction of the Aral Sea “the most staggering disaster of the 20th century.” It points to the Aral's demise as the cause of land degradation ...

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 sustained are simply ...

The Aral Sea Basin, defined in red, straddles six countries in Central Asia. About 70 million people rely on the Basin's water resources, a population greater than Thailand, France, or South Africa.

Environmental experts have rung the death knell for the Aral Sea in Central Asia. The world's fourth largest lake in 1960, the Aral Sea has already shrunk to half its former size - a result of ...

Rivers, lakes, and reservoirs long strained by overuse now face climate change. Some cities are turning to water restrictions to get back on track.

Take the Aral Sea as an example In Uzbekistan, once the fourth largest lake in the World! But the rivers that flowed into the Aral Sea were diverted to irrigate cotton fields. The cotton is for ...

ASTANA – The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) approved the work plan for the period of Kazakhstan’s ...

RFE/RL photo correspondent Petr Trotsenko meets the Tajiks who depend on the Syr Darya River, a waterway that was once bled ...

ASTANA – International Peace Day is celebrated annually on Sept. 21. The Astana Times spoke with political analysts to ...