Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea began evaporating in the 1960s. Its disappearance is widely considered one ...

In Kyzylorda ... every year. Kazakhstan has now teamed up with Uzbekistan to draw up “a roadmap to combat drought as well as sand and dust storms in the Aral Sea region,” Maria Zadneprovskaya ...

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 ...