"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried." That's the word from NASA, which has released images showing the progressive decline of the water ...

Ahead of the meeting, Bektenov met with heads of delegations. He emphasized Kazakhstan’s strong support for IFAS as an ...

President Tokayev of Kazakhstan has emphasised the need for decisive measures to effectively use the water resources of the Aral sea. Solving this problem - inherited from the Soviet Union - requires ...

The Aral Sea—a huge part of it at least—is no more. According to NASA, “for the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried.” Humans have been farming ...

A new study using data from NASA satellite missions finds that, although the long-term water picture for the Aral Sea watershed in Central Asia remains bleak, short-term prospects are better than ...

In the short space of about fifty years, what was once the world’s fourth largest lake has almost completely dried up. Located in the arid deserts of Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea basin has for all ...

In Kazakhstan, water preservation efforts for the Aral Sea are helping restore its economy. Since the 1990s, the Northern Aral Sea receded as far as 100 km away from the port city of Aralsk, ...

Summer 2014 marked another milestone for the Aral Sea, the once-extensive lake in Central Asia that has been shrinking markedly since the 1960s. For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin ...

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000... "For the first time in modern history, the eastern ...