One of the most infamous and well recognized instances of human-caused environmental catastrophe happened in the Aral Sea in the Central Asian steppes. Once, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake ...

In the short space of about fifty years, what was once the world’s fourth largest lake has almost completely dried up. Located in the arid deserts of Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea basin has for all ...

The Aral Sea was sustained for centuries by two great rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya. Its waters supported vibrant ...

The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively. New satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, its largest basin has completely dried up. However ...

The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake in the world, is nearly gone. Satellite images released by NASA this week show half of the inland lake that spans the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border in Central ...

The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, the largest basin has completely dried up. However ...

South Aral Sea, Uzbekistan • As the rising sun casts golden rays over the Aral Sea, a group of Uzbek fishermen wearing sweatshirts and knit caps gathered on a chilly beach to discuss the day’s plan.

Satellite imagery lets us take some truly gorgeous photos of our blue dot. By zooming out, we see not only the beautiful but also the harsh effects human choices have on our planet. One of many ...

In less than a century, humanity destroyed the Aral Sea. It is one of the most emblematic environmental disasters. But now it seems the sea has collapsed at least twice before, and recovered both ...

"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 ...

A lake that used to be the fourth-largest in the world is nearly completely dried up, according to recently released NASA images. The side-by-side images of Central Asia's Aral Sea in 2000 and 2014 ...