When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a ... for irrigation in the Soviet era to water cotton and rice fields. By 2010, the surface area had shrunk by ...

Rice is a pillar of Uzbekistan’s agriculture. But the climate crisis affecting the region’s two main rivers means that a ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...