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

A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away in a desert graveyard miles away from any water. The arid plain in Central ...

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

ASTANA — Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with leaders of Central Asian delegations on Sep. 18 during the first session of ...

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 ...

The loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. Can an ambitious project to plant millions of ...

Environmental experts have rung the death knell for the Aral Sea in Central Asia. The world's fourth largest lake in 1960, the Aral Sea has already shrunk to half its former size - a result of ...

The Aral Sea was once the third-largest lake in the world and home to a Russian Naval Flotilla. This inland body of water was the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. As well as ...

Pollution, climate change and its overuse are threatening the existence of one of the most unique stretches of water in the ...

The Aral Sea was rapidly shrinking, due to excessive farming and irrigation. As a result of the drought, the water level in the Aral Sea plummeted, and the once fertile sea became a barren wasteland.

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

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 ...