Termez, Uzbekistan — The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

The Aral Sea was fed by two of Central Asia's mightiest rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya. But in the 1960s, Soviet engineers decided to make the vast steppes bloom .

The water volume of the North Aral Sea off of Kazakhstan has increased by 42% to 27 billion cubic meters. Minister reveals Aral Sea's incredible evolution after years of massive intervention: 'The ...

KIPNIS: And then there's the river, the Syr Darya, one of two rivers which feeds the Aral Sea. Medieval Islamic texts refer to it as one of the four rivers of paradise.

Lake Chad gives the Aral Sea a run for its money in the category of big-but-now-dry bodies of water. According to the United Nations, the lake lost as much as 95% of its volume from 1963 to 2001.

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake, but 60 years ago, local industry diverted the rivers feeding the lake to irrigate cotton fields.

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

The Aral Sea, which used to be the ... Rivers that usually fed the lake were instead redirected to the nearby desert in the hopes of growing more cotton, melon, rice and cereal crops. However, ...

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, worry it may repeat the fate of the Aral Sea, which largely dried up ...

The Aral Sea was the world’s 4 th largest lake back in 1960 and before. But a decision by the Soviet leader, Stalin, changed the face of the landscape and the fate of the lake forever.