The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world, but today all that remains of it is a vast desert wasteland. In ...

The Caspian Sea's water levels have dropped over the past 20 years, especially in the north, shared by Russia and Kazakhstan.

Environmental experts have rung the death knell for the Aral ... Aral Sea basin, and primary among the approaches is water management. As long as humans have lived in Central Asia, dry air and ...

Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

Once the fourth-largest lake on the planet, today it is estimated that the Aral Sea in Central Asia has dried up to just a tenth of its size. Around 60 years ago, when the region was still part of ...

The book is a collection of 13 published articles, a forewarning of the catastrophe that could befall Great Nicobar Island, ...

The Aral Sea started to shrink in the 1960s when ... and these were exacerbated when the water retreated. As the sea dried up, toxic chemicals from the cotton industry were left exposed on the ...

It is highly unlikely that the Aral Sea will dry up completely by the end of the century. However, the area will undoubtedly become hypersaline and of little ecological or economic value.

Damming, over-extraction, pollution and, increasingly, the human-caused climate crisis are driving the decline of the Caspian Sea. Some experts fear it’s being pushed to the point of no return.

According to the agency, water-saving technologies were applied to 55 thousand hectares of local rice fields, the total area ...

The town, heavily reliant on the fishing industry, slowly died along with it. The eastern basin of the Aral Sea is now known as the Aralkum desert. It is said that the Aral Sea disaster could be ...