Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a raw ...
Khojabay regularly scans the desert to see if the Sea is coming back ... However, 26,000 square miles of sea is now called Aralkum or ‘The Aral Sands’ locally. When the Soviets started ...