Special Series The shrinking Aral Sea Once one of the largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been disappearing. Here's what it means for the people who live there.

Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped.

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.

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 ...

“People had written off the Aral Sea,” says University of Michigan geographer Philip Micklin, a National Geographic grantee who has been studying the sea since the 1980s and still visits every ...

But a scattering of small towns and villages remains. Some have as few as 10 people. And there, they say, there's still a bit of life beyond the sea.

But a scattering of small towns and villages remain. Some have as few as 10 people. And there, they say, there's still a bit of life beyond the sea. New cafes, clothing stores and bodegas boasting ...

The people who have been living on the banks of the sea for generations are now face to face with the disastrous disappearance of the inland water body dying out before their eyes. With the death of ...

A child plays inside a rusted dilapidated car along the dried-up Aral Sea, in the village of Tastubek near Aralsk, Kazakhstan, Monday, July 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) 32,903 people played ...

Special Series The shrinking Aral Sea Once one of the largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been disappearing. Here's what it means for the people who live there.

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

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. ... Some have as few as 10 people. And there, ...