But the dam has cut off the southern sea from one of its crucial water sources, sealing its fate. “The saddest and most frustrating thing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea is that the Soviet ...

The Kok-Aral dam, financed by the World Bank, raised the water level in the North Aral Sea to 42 meters, and parts of the waterfront made a comeback. But there are areas of the Large Aral Sea in ...

Building the dam would displace more than 60,000 people ... reservoir would also severely change the water flow to the Aral Sea, an ecosystem that has already suffered one of the largest human ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

The Aral Sea catastrophe is one of Ban’s top concerns ... In a presentation to Ban before his flyover, Uzbek officials complained that dam projects in Tajikistan will severely reduce the amount ...

The drying of the Aral Sea, which lost much of its water since the 1960s, increased Earth’s rotational speed over three times more than the Three Gorges Dam. Such impacts highlight the lasting ...