In the short space of about fifty years, what was once the world’s fourth largest lake has almost completely dried up. Located in the arid deserts of Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea basin has for all ...

One of the most infamous and well recognized instances of human-caused environmental catastrophe happened in the Aral Sea in the Central Asian steppes. Once, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake ...

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone. Satellite images released by NASA this week show half of the inland lake that spans the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border in Central ...

What began as a Soviet-era irrigation project in the 1960s has become a long shadow cast deep into the Earth’s interior. The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ...

The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up. However ...

The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, the largest basin has completely dried up. However ...

Akshabak Batimova, 67, stands by the now mostly dried-up bay along the former port in Aral, Kazakhstan. After the Aral Sea dried up, it devastated the livelihood of locals like Batimova who worked as ...

Dramatic satellite imagery illustrates the radical transformation that the Aral Sea has undergone over the past 15 years. The Aral Sea, which spans the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, used ...