the two rivers that feed the Aral. Under the Soviet Union, the rivers were diverted to use for agriculture -- mainly for ...

Decades of massive irrigation projects redirected the lake’s only sources of water, leading to rapid shrinkage and ecological collapse. By 2015, over 90% of the Aral Sea had disappeared ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

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 ...