A coalition of environmental organizations is calling on international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to reexamine the utility of financing hydropower ...

B rutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.When ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three Kazakh fisheries officials have driven down from the Aral Sea in a big Soviet-era truck to supervise the efforts to find the lost fish. One of them, Tynysbek Barakbayev, leans against the ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

Stacey Dooley is driven across the seabed, now reduced almost entirely to dust.

Triangular south south cooperation Advancing Sustainable Agriculture in the Aral Sea Region.

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 ...