The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an ...

train and car to go to the remote sides of the Aral. While there, they documented how climate change is further impacting lives of those in the region. The photos have a nostalgic and eerie quality, ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea. Mention the Aral Sea or search for it online, and apocalyptic scenes appear. A lake once so vast it is still called a sea ...

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 ...