The loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. Can an ambitious project to plant millions of ...

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 ...

I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through the region and he is calling on the countries’ leaders to set aside rivalries to ...

Brutal 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.

Vanuatu experienced another harrowing reminder of its vulnerability to disasters: a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck ...

List the major impacts on the environment and health. For more information, show pupils the following clips about the impact of the cotton industry on the Aral Sea area in the 1990s.

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 ...

It is said that the Aral Sea disaster could be undone if the diverted rivers, which are irrigating cotton fields, were re-diverted. However, Uzbekistan doesn't have the money to do this ...

In May, Qazaq Carbon teamed up with the Aral Oasis public association to implement a series of projects in the Aral Sea region, which over the last 60 years has largely dried up and developed into an ...