Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

The lighthouse that keeps watch over a crumbling flotilla of 10 or so ships is a stark reminder that Moynaq was once a thriving fishing port on the Aral Sea. "The history of the Karakalpak people ...

But the Aral Sea paid the price for this success. As its volume precipitously dropped, the Aral's waters turned toxic for fish and wildlife - not to mention human - populations that depended on them.

The shrunken sea has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left fishing ... I was so shocked,” he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns on his six-day trip through ...

Stacey Dooley is driven across the seabed, now reduced almost entirely to dust.

A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable ...

October 28, 2024 • Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores ...

The Aral Sea was once one of the world's largest lakes ... Here, six massive, rusted ships lie on their bellies like beached fish on the sand. (SOUNDBITE OF FOOTSTEPS) KIPNIS: So here we are ...