What it’s like to travel in a country that doesn’t exist
Filled with ghost cities, the region of Karakalpakstan takes up one-third of Uzbekistan’s territory – yet lies completely off ...
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The Aral: When a Sea Becomes a Forest
The Oasis project is in a remote area of the Aralkum Desert. There is a simple base camp, a 500-metre-deep borehole well, and a seedling nursery tucked away behind a reed hedge. Some of the saxaul ...
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Report Reveals World's Fourth Largest Lake Now a Deadly Desert
The rest of its bone-white seabed now forms the Aralkum desert. The Aral Sea as seen from satellites in 1989 compared to 2024. (NASA) "It is certainly one of the biggest environmental disasters in the ...