A devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, the Aral Sea ...

We go to the borders between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Afghanistan to see the dried up shores of what was once one of the largest lakes in the world, the Aral Sea. Mismanagement of the rivers ...

During his visit to the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan in June 2017, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the socio-environmental disaster as one of “the biggest ecological catastrophes ...

The Aral Sea disaster is a notorious product of an agricultural miscalculation that left the region exposed to natural and biochemical soil pollution, which gradually rendered the land unsuitable ...

The Aral Sea disaster began in the 1960s, with the introduction of inadequate irrigation systems to support increased agriculture in the region during the Soviet era. Over time, ageing and ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

In the heart of Central Asia lies the Aralkum Desert, a stark reminder of one of the world’s most severe environmental disasters. Once the seabed of the thriving Aral Sea, this vast expanse of 60,000 ...

From Aral, it’s another 70 kilometers farther to reach the coast of the shrunken sea. In the late 1980s, the shallowing Aral Sea split into two parts.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited the shrinking Aral Sea on Sunday and urged regional cooperation to tackle what environmentalists describe as one of the worst man-made ecological disasters.