What happened to the Aral Sea? The once third-largest lake in the world has been drying and shrinking since the 1960s thanks ...

Once a massive body of water, the only signs of its former glory are the eerie rusted ships that line what used to be a ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living ...

Brushing the dust from his hat and lying on the floor inside his home, Ali Shadilov recalls how he and other fishermen used to laugh at town elders who warned that the enormous sea they relied on was ...

Anson Mackay received funding from INTAS between 2003-2005 to research water level change in the Aral Sea over recent millennia. The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Large parts of western Uzbekistan and northern Turkmenistan are recovering from a severe salt storm that has damaged agriculture and livestock herds. The ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Dramatic satellite imagery illustrates the radical transformation that the Aral Sea has undergone over the past 15 years. The Aral Sea, which spans the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, used ...