In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. In this first episode, French writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Amu Darya River, from the dry plains ...

Not only that, but there is a measurable bulge that extends far beyond the original shoreline of the Aral Sea. Related: Before and after satellite images show lakes appearing across Sahara after ...

The inaugural summit gathered international participants to what is now considered the site of one of the greatest man-made ...

In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. French writer and traveller Cédric Gras journeys through the region to understand why. Along the way he visits spectacular ...

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 ...

New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made environmental disaster has also led to the creation of the toxic Aralkum ...

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake ... “it was anticipated that this rock would rebound by some small fraction of the original water depth while the weight was being removed.” ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the ...

Not only that, but there is a measurable bulge that extends far beyond the original shoreline of the Aral Sea. Scientists detected this bulge with a satellite remote-sensing technique called ...

A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.

drastically reducing the amount of water flowing into the Aral Sea. By the 1980s, the Sea had shrunk to less than half of its original size, and by 2007, much of the northeastern part had dried up ...