What happened to the Aral Sea? The once third-largest lake in the world has been drying and shrinking since the 1960s thanks ...

At around 60,000 square kilometres, the Aralkum Desert is now considered one of the most significant man-made dust sources on Earth. Leipzig. The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia 7 ...

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake, but 60 years ago, local industry diverted the rivers feeding the lake to irrigate cotton fields. Today, the lake is a quarter of its former size, ...