Economically, they are some of the most valuable animals on Earth ... Three Kazakh fisheries officials have driven down from the Aral Sea in a big Soviet-era truck to supervise the efforts ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... Soviet military’s Microbiological Warfare Group. Thousands of animals were shipped to the island, where they were subjected to anthrax ...

The drying of the Aral Sea has caused multiple animal species to go extinct and virtually ended human activity in the area. In addition, winds have carried tens of millions of tonnes of salt and ...

In the middle of the vast desert that surrounds what is left of the Aral Sea, graves stand as stark ... with only pockets of water where few animals, plants or people can live.