ASTANA – The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) approved the work plan for the period of Kazakhstan’s ...

“Back then, no one could imagine that the sea would dry up.” The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, with some 68,000 square kilometers (26,300 square miles ...

The study also found that unsustainable human use dried up lakes including the Aral Sea in Central Asia and the Dead Sea in the Middle East. Lakes in Afghanistan, Egypt and Mongolia were hit by ...

Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

The Aral Sea is drying out, one of the most severe ecological disasters caused by humans. The region has been devastated, but ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...

We were driving on the lake bottom, yet we were more than 12,000 feet above sea level ... from a nearby village where he grew up. Indeed, the lake has dried and recovered, most recently in ...

The Aral Sea was once the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. Today, it's a toxic desert because of Russian irrigation and hydropower projects ...

A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away ... Science Photo Library The Aral Sea was once an important location surrounded by fishing villages and even home to a Russian Naval Flotilla.

Environmental experts have rung the death knell for the Aral ... Aral Sea basin, and primary among the approaches is water management. As long as humans have lived in Central Asia, dry air and ...

The Aral Sea started to shrink in the 1960s when ... and these were exacerbated when the water retreated. As the sea dried up, toxic chemicals from the cotton industry were left exposed on the ...