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.

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 ...

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 ...