emphasizing the unprecedented scale of the crisis. The collapse of the Aral Sea began in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union initiated large-scale irrigation projects to turn Central Asia into a ...

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 ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

The species subject to capture include the Caspian seal, Aral Sea shovelnose sturgeon, Aral barbel, nelma, and Caspian trout. The statement emphasized that only a restricted number of these ...