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 ...

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.

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 ...

What a shrinking sea might teach us on life after environmental disaster. Sixty years ago, the Aral Sea began drying up, leaving salty, barren soil in its wake.

The region prospered, and thousands of migrants from across Asia and Europe moved to the Aral’s shores, for jobs popping up everywhere from canning factories to luxury vacation resorts.

The photos have a nostalgic and eerie quality, with those who have long been tied to the sea pictured with old boats sitting on now-dry sand. The team worked with a translator who helped get them gain ...