MUYNAK, UZBEKISTAN — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...

The Aral Sea has shrunk dramatically just since 1960, but it's showing signs of recovery, thanks to a concerted effort to restore it. (Credit: NASA Earth Observatory) In 2001, the World Bank teamed up ...

But amid such evidence of despair, fragile signs of hope are starting to appear. photo essay: Lost Ships, Dwindling Fishing Industry and Salt Flats. Today, the shrinking sea is a source of health ...

"The sea has left the harbour, but it hasn't left our hearts," reads a dilapidated sign in the dried-up Aralsk harbour. The dam has helped the northern Aral Sea grow by 40% Aralsk, a grim, rundown ...

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest saline lake in the world with an area of approximately 68,000sqkm, ... and there are new signs of life on the sea banks.

ASTANA — Kazakh Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has announced plans to create a new state nature reserve, Aral ...

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, continues to show signs of geological changes long after its environmental collapse. The geological research conducted recently shows that the ...

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.

The problem dates back to the 1960s when the Aral Sea was the fourth largest salt lake in the world. However, in recent decades, it has dried up considerably because of intensive agriculture and ...

Still, there is some hope the Aral Sea will persist—though at nowhere near the lake’s historic levels. In 2003, ... it could be hard to recognize the signs of trouble.