The centerpiece of efforts to save the northern sector is the Kokaral Dam, along with its 13-kilometer dike that stretches across the Berg Straits. Until 1973, Kokaral was a 270-square-kilometer ...

The centerpiece of the Aral salvation project is the concrete Kokaral dam. It’s an unremarkable-looking structure that can be walked across in less than a minute, but its impact has been ...

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

Known as the Kokaral Dam, the dike cuts across a narrow stretch of the sea, conserving and gathering water from the Syr Darya River. The dike surpassed expectations, leading to an increase of over ...

Dam Revives Aral Sea and Nearby Communities In the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan, government and Western officials reverse what is considered one of mankind's greatest ecological ...

NASA Time-Lapse Shows Aral Sea Rapidly Vanishing Over the Past 50 Years. Now you can walk on it. by Tiffany Jeung. ... the World Bank poured $87 million into building the Kokoral Dam in Kazakhstan ...

Dam Trouble. The 13-kilometer Kok-Aral dam was completed in 2005 as part of an $86 million “ phase-1 ” project that included upstream work to remove bottlenecks on the Syr Darya. The dam raised the ...

Known as the Kokaral Dam, the dike cuts across a narrow stretch of the sea, conserving and gathering water from the Syr Darya River. The dike surpassed expectations, leading to an increase of over ...

Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It's taking residents' livelihoods, too ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a ...

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