Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

A report prepared by Anadolu Agency (AA) for World Wetlands Day, titled "Once a Lake, Now a Desert," details the characteristics of the Aral Sea, the causes of its desiccation, its environmental ...

Once the fourth largest lake (the Aral Sea) in the world, it has become a deadly desert. Located between Uzbekistan and ...

Once a shimmering 68,000-square-kilometer (26,000-square-mile) inland sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea ...

What do you know about the Aral Sea and what does agriculture have to do with it? Why is its story called the worst environmental disaster of the twentieth century? #desert #ecology #tehnology If ...

But “in terms of a championship or a Super Bowl,” this drought makes the Aral Sea look like the Pacific Ocean. You’d find water in the Atacama Desert before the Cowboys play a January game. Dallas has ...

These areas were primarily located in the northern Kazakh hills, the Ustyurt Plateau (spanning western KAZ and northwestern UZB), the central Karakum Desert in TKM ... to land degradation around the ...

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 ...