But the dam has cut off the southern sea from one of its crucial water sources, sealing its fate. “The saddest and most frustrating thing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea is that the Soviet ...

ALMATY, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan plans to seize limited number of rare and endangered fish species, as well as other aquatic animals from the Aral and Caspian Seas, for scientific research and ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

Decades of massive irrigation projects redirected the lake’s only sources of water, leading to rapid shrinkage and ecological collapse. By 2015, over 90% of the Aral Sea had disappeared ...

There has been plenty of negative news of late about the damage done by global warming in Kazakhstan, but the Ministry of Water Resources recently had a positive tidbit to announce: the Northern Aral ...

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. The transformation of the freshwater ...

The volume of water in the northern Aral Sea is expected to increase from the current 22 billion to 27 billion cubic metres by 2030, said Moldir Abdualiyeva, official representative of the Ministry of ...

I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through the region and he is calling on the countries’ leaders to set aside rivalries to ...