Thanks to drought and Soviet-era waterworks, the Aral Sea is drying up to a crisp. But at least kids have cool shipwrecks to play on! Moynaq, Uzbekistan. kvitlauk. Liz Core. Published Oct 01 ...

In Uzbekistan, an eerie ship graveyard filled with hauntingly beautiful shipwrecks beckons. ... In fact, the Aral Sea fishing industry apparently employed around 40,000 at its peak.

Rusty shipwrecks at 'Sheeps cemetery' in Dzhambul, 4 August 2005. The Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest lake. (VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/Getty) The Aral Sea—a huge part of it at least—is no ...

A devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, the Aral Sea ...

Rusty shipwrecks where the Aral Sea once was. Photo / AFP. Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — 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 ...

It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

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 ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008. ZB Choose a region. Site search. ... Rusty shipwrecks where the Aral Sea once was.

The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once sustained are simply no more. But a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people.