The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake, but 60 years ago, local industry diverted the rivers feeding the lake to irrigate cotton fields. Today, the lake is a quarter of its former size, ...
Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It’s taking residents’ livelihoods, too
MUYNAK, UzbekistanMUYNAK, Uzbekistan — 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 ...
The Aral Sea disaster began in the 1960s, with the introduction of inadequate irrigation systems to support increased agriculture in the region during the Soviet era. Over time, ageing and ...
During his visit to the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan in June 2017, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the socio-environmental disaster as one of “the biggest ecological catastrophes of our ...
Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...
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