When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a ... disappearance of many of the more than 30 species of fish caught for commercial purposes. Now marked by sparse ...

ALMATY, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Kazakhstan plans to seize limited number of rare and endangered fish species, as well as other aquatic animals from the Aral and Caspian Seas, for scientific research and ...

Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

The shrunken sea has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left fishing ... I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through ...

Stacey Dooley is driven across the seabed, now reduced almost entirely to dust.

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. Since 2008, the volume of ...

These efforts will continue to improve water quality, protect biodiversity, boost the fisheries industry, enhance agricultural practices, and combat environmental degradation. The projects aim to ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...