As the sun rises above the Aral Sea, Alek, a local fisherman, steers the boat, leans forward and pulls the net out of the glittering water. It is full of carp, sturgeon and flounder - just two years ...

Thanks to one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in recorded history, the Aral Sea is disappearing. But a small section of the sea in the north is reviving – and fish are returning. When ...

Akshabak Batimova, 67, stands by the now mostly dried-up bay along the former port in Aral, Kazakhstan. After the Aral Sea dried up, it devastated the livelihood of locals like Batimova who worked as ...

One of the most infamous and well recognized instances of human-caused environmental catastrophe happened in the Aral Sea in the Central Asian steppes. Once, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake ...

On the Kazakh side of the Aral Sea, water levels are rising, and fishing communities are being rebuilt. The future of the South Aral Sea, bordering on Uzbekistan, is still in doubt. Matilda Lee ...

BIRLESTIK, Kazakhstan — In the dried-up harbor of this dusty village, camels roam next to forlorn ships seemingly washed up by tides of sand. Near the rusting hulks, a camel herder dreams of what once ...

The desiccation of a remote island lake in Central Asia is one of the world's worst ecological disasters. Now, with an $85 million engineering project, the doomed sea is coming back to life. Ecologist ...

In 2000, the Aral Sea was in grave condition. This inland sea, which was once Earth’s fourth-largest lake, had been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, when Soviet-era irrigation projects diverted the ...

An ambitious plan to try to restore to health part of the shrinking Aral Sea has been mounted by Kazakhstan. It involves building a massive dam to separate for ever the two distinct parts into which ...