Silent Chernobyl: Dry Aral Sea has made Central Asia dustier, with impacts on global climate, says study
Not only does the dust of the Aralkum Desert left in place of the Aral endanger residents, it also can accelerate the melting of glaciers …
Ebbing away
Seasick
Endless misery
QED
Cancer in the region of the Aral Sea linked to its drying up
Saving steps
How the world's land and water surface have changed in 30 years
India ranks sixth in conversion of land surface to water
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The shrinking sea
Central Asian states wrangle over water use, even as the world's 4th-largest inland waterbody dries up
Environmental collapse before Soviet’s fall
Exactly 25 years after the fall of the USSR, let’s take a look at its ‘consumeristic’ policies for exploiting natural resources …
Sea that isn't
In just 50 years, the Aral Sea - once the fourth largest inland water body - has turned into world's newest desert
Will the Aral Sea ever come back?
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling shore of …
"Every ninth baby here suffers brain damage"
A woman with a mission. ORAL ATANVFAZOVA, at 39, finds herself in the midst of a salvage operation aimed at providing succour to the teeming …
"Forgive us, Aral. Please come back." These words written in chalk, on a ship sftKk in a sandy wasteland, which was once the bustling …