The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, taking up some 26,300 square miles. Colossal steel ships sailed on deep blue water filled with sturgeon, ...

“The fish factories closed, the ships were stranded in the harbor, and the workers all left,” said Zhasekenov, former director of the Aral Sea Fisherman Museum in Aralsk, Kazakhstan. “It ...

From Aral, it’s another 70 kilometers farther to reach the coast of the shrunken sea. In the late 1980s, the shallowing Aral Sea split into two parts.

The eastern basin of the once-great Aral Sea dried up completely in the month of August for the first time in modern history. Soviet irrigation projects set up in the 1960s to support the Uzbek ...

A rusting ship sits in a dried-up area of the Aral Sea in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Sunday, June 25, 2023. Decades ago, deep blue and filled with fish, it was one of the world's largest inland bodies of ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a ...

Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too ...