The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... I plod along behind until the water reaches my knees. I try to swim, but my legs float up to the surface, making it impossible to kick.

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. The transformation of the freshwater ...

When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a ... Alimbetova would often run down to the beach for a swim and an ice cream with her siblings.

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 ...

There has been plenty of negative news of late about the damage done by global warming in Kazakhstan, but the Ministry of Water Resources recently had a positive tidbit to announce: the Northern Aral ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. The Aral Sea between ...