Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when the learned fisherman finds no fish at all? This has been one of numerous ...

One massive body of water, the Aral Sea, was once large enough to be the third-largest freshwater reservoir in the world. Today, however, it is significantly smaller, and the area that is now dried up ...

A rusting ship sits in a dried-up area of the Aral Sea in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Decades ago, deep blue and filled with fish, it was one of the world's largest inland bodies of ...

And while the South Aral remains in dire straits, researchers say the tentative revival of the North Aral gives them hope. Another sea, another headache.

The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan ...

The shrinking of the Aral Sea -- once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water -- has devastated much of southwestern Kazakhstan and northwestern Uzbekistan, and wreaked havoc on the lives ...

The Aral Sea, running the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia was, in the 1960s, roughly “ half the size of England.” That made it the fourth largest lake in the world.

The Large Aral Sea had itself begun to divide into two smaller bodies, roughly eastern and western. Between 2009 and 2014, wet and dry years caused the size of the sea to fluctuate.

Light is reflected on part of the Aral Sea outside Muynak, Uzbekistan, Sunday, June 25, 2023. The destruction of the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been labeled by the U.N. as the most staggering ...

The Aral Sea, running the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia was, in the 1960s, roughly “ half the size of England.” That made it the fourth largest lake in the world.

By 1987, the Aral’s level was so low it split into two bodies of water: the northern and southern seas, in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, respectively.