Located in Eastern Central Asia. It is c.1,600 mi (2,580 km) long and flows generally northwest from sources in the snow-capped Pamirs along the border of Afghanistan and Tajikstan, Uzbekistan, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The water volume in the northern part of the Aral Sea has nearly doubled since 2008, according to Kazakhstan's Kazinform News Agency. Once the fourth-largest lake in the world lying between ...

Once the world’s 4th-largest lake straddling the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the shrinking and division of the Aral Sea is sometimes wrongly attributed to climate change.

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 ...