Soviet planners wanted to turn Central Asia into the world’s largest producer of cotton, and for a period in the 1980s Uzbekistan did grow more than any other country. Jetty on the Small Aral Sea ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

ESA’s March 18, 2025 satellite image shows the western lobe of the Large Aral continuing to recede, while the eastern lobe, still visible in satellite images from 2006, has now virtually ...

Under the Soviet Union, the rivers were diverted to use for agriculture -- mainly for cotton and rice cultivation, causing the sea to shrink by up to 90 percent in size from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Almaty (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – 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.

12/10/2024 Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world, but today all that remains of it is a vast desert wasteland. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union began diverting the rivers that fed the Aral ...

A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away in a desert graveyard miles away from any water. The arid plain in Central Asia, once in the Soviet Union, is now a wasteland – but it had o… ...