At the 2025 Samarkand Climate Forum, Karakalpakstan introduced the Aral Culture Summit to spotlight recovery, history, and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea.

Restoring the Aral Sea basin Planting saxaul trees has proven to be one of the most effective tools for combating the increased amounts of sand and salt caused by the Aral Sea’s drainage. Forest ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution.

Politicians are now touting the concept of river interlinking for inter-basin water transfers as a geoengineering solution to continued water depletion in India.

Karakalpakstan, November 21, 2024. In a new effort to tackle the environmental and economic challenges of the Aral Sea region, more than 60 local households in Muynak, Kungrad, and Takhtakupir have ...

A month later, Bolat Bekniyaz was appointed as the first deputy minister. Bekniyaz has extensive experience in water conservation. From 2016-23, he served as the director of the executive board of the ...

Restoration efforts have partially revived the Northern Aral Sea, but challenges like reduced fish populations and rising health issues persist. This is being done through programmes like the Aral Sea ...

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake, but 60 years ago, local industry diverted the rivers feeding the lake to irrigate cotton fields. Today, the lake is a quarter of its former ...

MUYNAK, UZBEKISTAN — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...

UNDP international expert Dr. Vadim Sokolov, Vice President of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage and Head of the IFAS Agency for the Implementation of Projects in the Aral Sea ...

Nevertheless, work regarding the Aral Sea helps Tokyo maintain a positive presence in Central Asia that does not appear threatening to other regional powers (e.g., Beijing and Moscow).