Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings ...

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, much of the salty Aral had largely ... plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and make the area more resilient to the impacts ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... moisture evaporated off the lake each day. “Now instead of water vapor in the atmosphere, we have toxic dust,” says Kamalov, as he ...

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 ...

ASTANA – Kazakhstan has collected a record volume of over 75 billion cubic meters of water in its reservoirs this year, ...