But the dam has cut off the southern sea from one of its crucial water sources, sealing its fate. “The saddest and most frustrating thing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea is that the Soviet ...

The Kok-Aral dam, financed by the World Bank, raised the water level in the North Aral Sea to 42 meters, and parts of the waterfront made a comeback. But there are areas of the Large Aral Sea in ...

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. The transformation of the freshwater ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns ... In a presentation to Ban before his flyover, Uzbek officials complained that dam projects in Tajikistan will severely reduce the amount ...

The drying of the Aral Sea, which lost much of its water since the 1960s, increased Earth’s rotational speed over three times more than the Three Gorges Dam. Such impacts highlight the lasting ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. The Aral Sea between ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea now contains nearly 50 percent more water than in 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. The Aral Sea ...