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

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 Aral Sea was once the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. Today, it's a toxic desert because of Russian ...

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 ...

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

She points to areas like the Aral Sea, on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, as well as lake systems closer to home, like Mono Lake, in central California. “All of these areas globally are ...

Avery and others point to the slow-motion disaster of the Aral Sea for a vision of what may come. The Aral was once the fourth largest inland body of water on Earth, gleaming between Kazakhstan ...

TASHKENT, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A joint scientific expedition on the ecological environment of the Aral Sea aimed at addressing the ecological crisis of the Aral Sea and jointly promoting green ...

The health of the Great Salt Lake is directly tied to that of the millions of people who live near it, but our leaders are ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...

The Aral Sea was once the third-largest lake in the world and home to a Russian Naval Flotilla. This inland body of water was the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. As well as ...