ALMATY, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- The water volume in the northern part of the Aral Sea has risen by 42 percent, reaching 27 billion cubic meters, Kazakhstan's Kazinform News Agency reported on Monday.
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 ...
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 ...