This article explores the causes and consequences of desertification in Kazakhstan, highlighting the urgent need for ...

Now, Bayniyazova and other residents say they’re facing a catastrophe they can’t beat: climate change ... director of the Aral Sea Fisherman Museum in Aralsk, Kazakhstan.

Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings ...

The History Museum in Aral, Kazakhstan, displays a preserved bream—on of several species that vanished in the 1980s, when the once bountiful Aral Sea shriveled and divided into separate bodies ...

The loss of the Aral ... Kazakhstan's cotton industry did not foresee that herbicides and pesticides from their new plantations would run off into the rivers around them and end up in the Aral Sea.

An curved arrow pointing right. The Aral Sea is shrinking at an incredibly rapid rate. Produced by Maya Dangerfield. Images courtesy of NASA. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech The Aral Sea is ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once one of the world's largest lakes, but after years of being drained to irrigate crops, it ...

Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the Aral Sea.

The region’s vital water resources – such as the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea, and the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers – are rapidly ...

Noting that climate change is affecting global water cycles ... his country is also intensifying efforts to preserve the Aral Sea, previously the world’s fourth-largest lake, though it has ...