The Aral Sea region is heavily polluted, with consequent serious public health problems. UNESCO has added historical documents concerning the Aral Sea to its Memory of the World Register as a …

May 16, 2024 · Once teeming with diverse aquatic life, including fish species like the Aral trout and endemic sturgeon, the shrinking water levels have devastated these populations, disrupting the …

Jan 2, 2026 · What was left by the dried up sea has been called the worst environmental disaster on the planet. Here's everything we know about what happened to the Aral Sea, including what experts say …

Aug 27, 2025 · The destruction of the Aral Sea is considered to be one of the most catastrophic human-caused ecological disasters in history because of its immense and largely unmeasured damage to …

Jan 21, 2026 · Aral Sea, a once-large saltwater lake of Central Asia. It was once the world’s fourth largest body of inland water but has shrunk remarkably because of the diversion of its sources of …

Nov 25, 2025 · A massive irrigation project has devastated the Aral Sea over the past 50 years. These images show the decline of the Southern Aral Sea in the past decade, as well as the first steps of …

20 hours ago · How scientific warnings failed to prevent the Aral Sea’s collapse and what data-rich denial reveals about modern environmental risk.

Mar 21, 2024 · A once 40-meter-deep freshwater body, sustaining a robust fishing industry and a lifeline for communities living its shores, the Aral Sea has now disintegrated into two distinct bodies of water, …

Apr 15, 2025 · The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest inland lake in the world, has undergone catastrophic decline since the 1960s. Massive irrigation projects by the Soviet Union diverted the …

The Aral Sea, being unique, beautiful and one of the largest inland water bodies in the world, has almost disappeared within one genera¬tion’s life, resulted in unprecedented disaster and irreparable …