Once a massive body of water, the only signs of its former glory are the eerie rusted ships that line what used to be a ...

Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...

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

Once the fourth-largest lake in the world, the Aral Sea is now a haunting symbol of human environmental failure. Stretching across Central Asia, the Aral Sea sustained fishing communities, moderated ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...

The Aral Sea has been dying a long, slow death. This summer, another nail was driven into its coffin. Starting in the 1950s, when Soviet authorities began programs that diverted water from its ...

The UNDP, alongside Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture and regional research institutes, held an international roundtable, ...