The Aral Sea crisis remains one of the world’s most alarming ecological disasters, with ongoing efforts to mitigate its impact offering a glimmer of hope for the future.

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By ...

Once the fourth largest lake (the Aral Sea) in the world, it has become a deadly desert. Located between Uzbekistan and ...

The evidence of the crisis is clear, particularly for those ... The region risks a second Aral Sea disaster on a far greater scale. Time is of the essence. The decisions made today will shape ...

But now the climate crisis is also threatening their survival ... Its decline is particularly concerning, given the fate of the nearby Aral Sea in central Asia, which was once the world’s ...

There has been plenty of negative news of late about the damage done by global warming in Kazakhstan, but the Ministry of Water Resources recently had a positive tidbit to announce: the Northern Aral ...