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 ...

But it would take a miracle to bring the sea back to Moynak, and the Kokaral dam is one reason for that. “It is helping to save the Small Aral sea,” says FitzGerald. “But it was also a death ...

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 ...

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, ... [Dike Kokaral Dam] in 2005. At first, ...

Although the Kokaral dam means life and jobs for the Small Aral Sea community, it is just another nail in the coffin for the Large Aral Sea on the other side, now only receiving small amounts of ...

The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, ... Since the Kokaral dam was built in 2005, over 30 billion cubic metres to date has spilled from the Northern Aral Sea. ...

During those decades, flounder was the only fish that could survive the high-salinity North Aral Sea. But after the Kokaral Dam was finished, the average salinity dropped from 30 grams to 8 grams ...

Known as the Kokaral Dam, the dike cuts across a narrow stretch of the sea, ... The Aral Sea used to be one of the world’s largest inland bodies of water. Now, it's disappearing.

In 2005, Kazakhstan took drastic measures: they used World Bank funding to build a dam across what was once the lake's largest island: Kokaral Island. Kokaral had become a peninsula and then an ...

AKESPE, Kazakhstan -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned ...

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