Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea began evaporating in the 1960s. Its disappearance is widely considered one ...

Dramatically rising salinity levels have led to the disappearance ... In her role as deputy manager of the Aral Sea Environmental Restoration Project in Central Asian Kazakhstan, Zadneprovskaya ...

Due to climate change and other factors, water levels are plummeting. Learn what could help and why it’s so important to ...

reducing the salinity of the water by a factor of almost four and promoting aquatic life, it said. Efforts to save the Aral Sea have required close cooperation between the five former Soviet ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

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 2024 alone, authorities directed 2.6 billion cubic metres of water from the Syr Darya river into the northern part, reducing the salinity of the water by a factor of almost four and promoting ...

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. Since 2008, the volume of ...