Restoration efforts including a dam and water use controls are helping Kazakhstan revive part of the shrinking Aral Sea. View ...

BIRLESTIK, Kazakhstan — In the dried-up harbor of this dusty village, camels roam next to forlorn ships seemingly washed up by tides of sand. Near the rusting hulks, a camel herder dreams of what once ...

Thanks to one of the worst manmade environmental disasters in recorded history, the Aral Sea is disappearing. But a small section of the sea in the north is reviving – and fish are returning. When ...

Akshabak Batimova, 67, stands by the now mostly dried-up bay along the former port in Aral, Kazakhstan. After the Aral Sea dried up, it devastated the livelihood of locals like Batimova who worked as ...

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 ...

As the sun rises above the Aral Sea, Alek, a local fisherman, steers the boat, leans forward and pulls the net out of the glittering water. It is full of carp, sturgeon and flounder - just two years ...

An ambitious plan to try to restore to health part of the shrinking Aral Sea has been mounted by Kazakhstan. It involves building a massive dam to separate for ever the two distinct parts into which ...