The Aral Sea, once among the world’s largest inland water bodies, is now one of the clearest examples of human impact on an ecosystem. Situated between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia, the ...
For decades the shrinking Aral Sea has been the poster child for environmental catastrophe. Behind images of rusty fishing boat shells sitting awkwardly among the sand dunes lies a story of human ...
Imagine travelling to a seaside town and finding no sea. Instead, there is sand stretching into the distance, rusting fishing boats sitting where water once was, and a landscape that looks more like a ...