Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea is now a barren wasteland. This is the story of its dramatic collapse—one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

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 ...

In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, one of history’s worst environmental disasters, is now a tourist attraction. What can it teach us about the fate of humankind?

What a shrinking sea might teach us on life after environmental disaster. Sixty years ago, the Aral Sea began drying up, leaving salty, barren soil in its wake.

Graves are visible near the dried-up Aral Sea outside Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it ...

Mr. Dreyer, an editor and writer, wrote from Muynak, Uzbekistan. Walking toward the shrinking remnants of what used to be the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was like entering hell. All around was a desert ...

MUYNAK, UZBEKISTAN — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...

Ali Shadilov, left, and Anvar Saimbetov pose in front of an old boat in the area where the Aral Sea once was in Muynak, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The Associated Press interviewed ...

What used to be the shores and shipyards of the Aral Sea are now more than 200 kilometers from the remaining water. It took VOA about four hours in a special jeep to reach the sea.. No population ...

The Aral Sea used to be one of the world’s largest inland bodies of water. Now, it's disappearing. Most Innovative Companies Awards Super-Early Rate Deadline This Friday, 7/26 ...

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, worry it may repeat the fate of the Aral Sea, which largely dried up ...

From Aral, it’s another 70 kilometers farther to reach the coast of the shrunken sea. In the late 1980s, the shallowing Aral Sea split into two parts.