The Aral Sea was sustained for centuries by two great rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya. Its waters supported vibrant ...
Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea was drained to fuel Soviet ambitions — leaving behind deserts, toxic dust, and abandoned ships. White House responds to Trump-Putin ...
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 ...
This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...
The Caspian Sea, Earth’s largest enclosed inland body of water, is vanishing at a pace that has stunned scientists. Once a stable icon of Central Asia’s geography, the sea is now shrinking so rapidly ...