The team crossed Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan by plane, train and car to go to the remote sides of the Aral. While there, they documented how climate change is further impacting lives of those in the ...

The Aral Sea started to shrink in the 1960s when the ... in the ground to prove the shoreline was disappearing. Moynaq's old shoreline is now a graveyard of old fishing ships As the volume of ...

He’s a 64-year-old senior researcher in wind energy at the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences. He’s also an environmental activist, chairing the Union for the Defense of the Aral Sea and Amu Darya.

Others are covered with crumpled old newspaper. Almost all residents, save one or two, have moved to New Akespe, a village built less than a mile away. But there are areas of the Large Aral Sea in ...

I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through the region and he is calling on the countries’ leaders to set aside rivalries to ...