The Caspian Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, a crisis now visible to the naked eye and driven by climate change and ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

Have you ever stood in a place where the ground is cracked and dry, and tried to imagine it once teeming with life, green ...

For at least the past six years, the Caspian Sea has been visibly retreating. Considered to be the world’s largest lake, the Caspian Sea is a remnant of the ancient Paratethys Sea and covers an area ...

What remains of the Aral Sea is a dust-blown basin, scattered with rusting ships and salt-crusted soil. What began as a Soviet-era irrigation project in the 1960s has become a long shadow cast ...

The Aral Sea used to cover an area of 68,000 square kilometers (26,300 square miles). ... rivers that fed the salt lake with fresh water and maintained this basin in a mostly arid region.

At the 2025 Samarkand Climate Forum, Karakalpakstan introduced the Aral Culture Summit to spotlight recovery, history, and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea.

Aral Culture Summit (ACS), a cultural and environmental initiative to revitalise the Aral Sea region in Central Asia will take place from 4-6 April 2025. Organised by the Uzbekistan Art and ...

Aral Culture Summit (ACS), a cultural and environmental initiative to revitalise the Aral Sea region in Central Asia will take place from 4-6 April 2025. Organised by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 2. The European Union (EU) is preparing to launch a significant environmental project in Uzbekistan in 2025 aimed at restoring degraded lands in the lower Aral Sea basin ...

The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea, and Lakes Superior and Victoria. ... The Western basin accounts for another 5%.