Can the Aral Sea be reborn?

A generation ago, the vanishing of the Aral Sea became global shorthand for environmental desolation. Today the region has ...

A Soviet sea, killed by an obsession with 'white gold'

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...

The Soviets Abandoned a Top-Secret Bioweapons Testing Ground. 34 Years Later, ‘Anthrax Island’ Is Waking Up.

Vozrozhdeniya Island, located in the Aral Sea along the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border, played a large part in the Soviet Union ...
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How self-drilling e-seeds dropped by drones can mitigate Aral Sea disaster

Climate change is largely driven by human activity – industrial emissions and the overuse of natural resources. Those who study the field know that one of the most striking examples of environmental ...
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The lost sea: Venice Biennale pavilion set to explore Aral Sea environmental disaster

Uzbekistan will place one of the world’s most dramatic environmental transformations at the centre of its national pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Titled The ...