Within decades, ports were stranded in sand, ships lay rusting in the desert, and entire communities were forced to migrate. The Aral Sea shrank by more than 90 percent, its microclimate collapsing ...

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 ...