Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

Imagine a body of water so vast that fishermen once sailed for hours without seeing land, where waves crashed against busy ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but what used to be an expanse of water in the basin of the Kyzylkum Desert now lies almost completely dry. The Aral Sea has been retreating over the ...

Aral Sea, once filled with blue fish, has completely disappeared. The world is experiencing the devastating impact of rising temperature due to climate change. January 2024 is the second consecutive ...

Recklessly starving the world's fourth-largest lake to irrigate crops turned rich waters into a barren wasteland. Now the northern part, at least, is coming back The Aral Sea gets almost all its water ...

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 ...