But a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people. And there, they say, there's still a bit of life beyond the sea. New cafes, clothing stores and bodegas boasting ...

What happened to the Aral Sea? The once third-largest lake in the world has been drying and shrinking since the 1960s thanks ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

Aktau, Kazakhstan – During his childhood, Adilbek Kozybakov’s mother always kept a jar of sturgeon caviar in the fridge. Each day, she would spoon it on small pieces of bread and butter for him and ...

MOYNAK, Uzbekistan (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Central Asian states to work together to tackle the disastrous effects of the shrinking Aral Sea Sunday after local people ...

* Ban seeks regional solution to environmental disaster * Says U.N. will help By Patrick Worsnip MOYNAK, Uzbekistan, April 4 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on Central Asian ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once one of the world's largest lakes, but after years of being drained to irrigate crops, it ...