Kazakhstan’s 12km-long dyke, pointed out on a map here, saved part of the North Aral Sea ... Today, the North Aral Sea in Kazakhstan has been revived, with water and economy returning to Aralsk.

A joint Aral rescue group is expected to be created by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. This was stated by Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan Yerik Utembayev during his visit to Karakalpakstan ...

Around two decades ago, it split into the Small Aral Sea in the north, located in Kazakhstan, ... who made the dramas "Elegy" with Kingsley and Penelope Cruz and "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo", ...

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.

The Aral Sea is only the epicentre of the tragedy, as Central Asians commonly refer to this legacy of environmental misuse; the damage has also consumed thousands of surrounding square kilometers.

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.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Sept. 30 (UPI) --New photos from NASA are showing the Aral Sea as just a sliver with the entire basin diminished as a result of a Soviet-era irrigation diversion project.

Once the fourth largest inland sea in the world, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its water volume over the last 50 years. Its watershed -- the enormous closed basin around the sea ...

The Aral Sea supported a thriving commercial fishing industry employing roughly 60,000 people in the early 1960s. By 1977, the fish harvest was reduced by 75%. End of Article ...

Fishing used to be big business on the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan. That was before the man-made environmental catastrophe that left the sea a tenth of its original size.

The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate. For a young Madi Zhasekenov ...