Wang Teng at Peking University in China became curious about the Aral Sea after reading a book about the consequences of this ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—it was once the fourth largest saline lake in the world. But since the 1960s, it has been shrinking because water from the ...

Even the Aral Sea disaster itself is becoming a unique point of interest. “There’s a small focus on disaster tourism. Many people want to visit the Aral Sea and what’s left of it—like the ...

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 ...