Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...

AKESPE, Kazakhstan -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned ...

The Aral Sea’s story demonstrates how human actions can profoundly alter natural systems, yet it also shows that determined ...

Once a poster child for environmental disaster, the Aral Sea is making an unexpected comeback, and it's making waves for all the right reasons. A report from Kazakhstan showed the Northern Aral Sea is ...

The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but today the lake has all but dried. Images from NASA show how the lake has rapidly dried since 2000. "In the ...

The Aral Sea has been dying a long, slow death. This summer, another nail was driven into its coffin. Starting in the 1950s, when Soviet authorities began programs that diverted water from its ...

Uzbekistan will place one of the world’s most dramatic environmental transformations at the centre of its national pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Titled The ...

June 24 (Reuters) - The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has shrunk by 70 percent in recent decades in what environmentalists describe as one of the worst man-made ecological disasters.

Whether Barsa-Kelmes is a place of genuine supernatural power or simply a remote location where folklore met Cold War paranoia, its impact on the human imagination is undeniable. It represents our ...

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 ...

Mirtalipova’s parable-like account of the Aral Sea’s dwindling waters makes for a startling story of ecological change. A series of seven opening maps chronologically establishes the dramatic ...