The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

Today, in lieu of the Aral Sea, there is a desert peppered with abandoned, rusted ships. (Image credit: Eddie Gerald/Getty Images) "The Aral Sea, although never particularly deep, was wide enough ...

Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem ... The town was alive with the ...

“There’s a small focus on disaster tourism. Many people want to visit the Aral Sea and what’s left of it—like the ship graveyard in Moynaq. But the aim is shifting—not to look at ...