For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living ...

The species subject to capture include the Caspian seal, Aral Sea shovelnose sturgeon, Aral barbel ... leading to a steady decrease in fish stocks. Once the world's fourth-largest lake by area ...

Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

which negatively affected the fish and vegetation and posed a health threat to humans. Nurzhigitov outlined the second phase of the North Aral Sea restoration project, which was initiated in ...