Russian environmental scientists say that all of the fish in the Uzbek part of the Aral Sea have died as the southern part of the lake continues to shrink, RFE/RL's Uzbek Service reports. Russia's ...

The shrinking of the Aral Sea -- a man-made environmental disaster that started in the 1960s -- devastated fishing communities that were left far from the retreating shore. But a dam completed in 2005 ...

ARAL SEA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth biggest lake, is most likely gone forever, its death having brought about decades of environmental disaster. However, a project ...

“Good news – the mother sea is coming,” says a sign hanging over a street in the town of Aral, Kazakhstan. Optimism is growing over a possible revival of the Aral Sea, the destruction of which remains ...

AKESPE, KAZAKHSTAN — Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with ...

The rusting portholes of the Lev Berg, once a proud vessel in the Aral fishing fleet, stare out across the garbage-strewn expanse of the dry Aral Sea bed. The rotting, graffiti-covered hulk of this ...

A DRIED-UP sea has left fishing boats rusting away in a desert graveyard miles away from any water. The arid plain in Central Asia, once in the Soviet Union, is now a wasteland – but it had once been ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...

The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan has confirmed that every ...