When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by ... is a striking example of a fishing village swallowed by the sand. About 20 houses stand abandoned, scattered ...

A Kazakh fisherman is carried to a boat (left) in Tastubek, on the northern part of the Aral Sea. Thanks to a dam, fishing is still possible there. But in the Uzbek village of Kubla-Ustyurt ...

Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

The shrunken sea has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left fishing ... I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through ...

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 ...