The plan has helped local fisheries up their annual catch total to 8,000 tons. Dwindling body of water makes stunning comeback: 'The result of two years of systematic work' first appeared on The Cool ...

When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a raw, deep sadness. "It felt like a real catastrophe," says the environmental expert, walking across the dried seabed ...

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 ...

The commission published data separately for Central Asia’s two major water sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers.

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...