Environmental experts have rung the death knell for the Aral Sea in Central Asia. The world's fourth largest lake in 1960, the Aral Sea has already shrunk to half its former size - a result of ...

The loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. Can an ambitious project to plant millions of ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

TASHKENT, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A joint scientific expedition on the ecological environment of the Aral Sea aimed at addressing the ecological crisis of the Aral Sea and jointly promoting green ...