The town was alive with the honking of ships' horns ... 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 ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... The spring was basically the town center, with people coming and going all day [above]. All the families here have herds of livestock ...

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. Since 2008, the volume of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...