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

Barsa-Kelmes, a former island in the now dried-up Aral Sea on the border between Kazakhstan ... Although Barsa-Kelmes' otherworldly creatures haven't been proven to exist, many real species ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... Soviet military’s Microbiological Warfare Group. Thousands of animals were shipped to the island, where they were subjected to anthrax ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—it was once the fourth largest saline lake in the world. But since the 1960s, it has been shrinking because water from the ...

The exposed dry seabed is likely to release dust containing industrial contaminants and salt, posing serious threats to human health, as previously occurred with the drying of the Aral Sea.