MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — 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 ...

Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...

Once among the world’s largest lakes, the Aral Sea has almost vanished due to massive Soviet irrigation schemes; this ...

The Aral Sea in central Asia used to be one of the world's largest lakes. NASA explains, "In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, ...

But a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people. And there, they say, there's still a bit of life beyond the sea. New cafes, clothing stores and bodegas boasting ...

“Good news – the mother sea is coming,” says a sign hanging over a street in the town of Aral, Kazakhstan. Optimism is growing over a possible revival of the Aral Sea, the destruction of which remains ...

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 ...

The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but today the lake has all but dried. Images from NASA show how the lake has rapidly dried since 2000. "In the ...

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 ...

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried." That's the word from NASA, which has released images showing the progressive decline of the water ...