The water volume of the North Aral Sea off of Kazakhstan has increased by 42% to 27 billion cubic meters, according to The ...

This increase follows the first phase of the North Aral Sea conservation project, which has also led to a nearly fourfold reduction in water salinity and a rise in the annual fish catch to 8,000 ...

Holding back the desert Zadneprovskaya and her team have been planting black saxaul trees on a 500-hectare (1,235-acre) plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

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 ...

In an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save the North Aral Sea, a dam project was completed in 2005, with construction financed by the World Bank, helping to bring water back to northern areas.

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 ...

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. The Aral Sea between ...

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 ...