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 ...

A child plays inside a rusted dilapidated car along the dried-up Aral Sea, in the village of Tastubek near Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) 32,903 people played ...

Over time the Aral Sea gradually dried up. It started to shrink in 1960 when the rivers were diverted. Satellite images show that by 1998 it was 60% of its original size.

Graves are visible near the dried-up Aral Sea outside Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it ...

"Back then, no one could imagine that the sea would dry up." The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, taking up some 26,300 square miles.

A man rides to his home through the area of the dried-up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Saturday, June 24, 2023. The demise of the once-mighty sea has affected thousands of residents and their ...

The Aral Sea was rapidly shrinking, due to excessive farming and irrigation. As a result of the drought, the water level in the Aral Sea plummeted, and the once fertile sea became a barren wasteland.

When Akshabak Batimova was growing up, her father left their village in western Kazakhstan each morning to fish in the Aral Sea — until recently, one of the world’s largest lakes.

A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away in a desert graveyard miles away from any water. The arid plain in Central Asia, once in the Soviet Union, is now a wasteland - but it had once ...

The world's largest landlocked body of water, the Caspian Sea, is evaporating at an alarming pace. Since the 1990s, its level has fallen by more than 3 metres. With ports drying up, fishing in ...