Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

By the ‘80s, the Aral Sea’s salinity had spiked, eventually killing off its native fish. Surrounding communities that depended on fishing saw their economies crash.

The Aral Sea, like the Great Salt Lake, has declined significantly from agricultural demand and human water consumption. Once a freshwater lake teeming with fish, ...

By the ‘80s, the Aral Sea’s salinity had spiked, eventually killing off its native fish. Surrounding communities that depended on fishing saw their economies crash.

The Aral Sea gets almost all its water from the Amu and Syr rivers. ... But it would average only 2.5 meters deep. Salinity would exceed 100 g/l, possibly reaching 200 g/l; ...

The Aral Sea, like the Great Salt Lake, has declined significantly from agricultural demand and human water consumption. Once a freshwater lake teeming with fish, ...

“People had written off the Aral Sea,” says University of Michigan geographer Philip ... Salinity climbed from 10 to 30 grams per liter, almost as briny as the ocean. All 24 species of ...

Zaualkhan Ermakhanov, a local ichthyologist, is concerned that the Little Aral Sea could become a dead sea. After all, the salinity has increased as the flow of water from the Syr Darya has decreased.

In the past century, the Dead Sea's surface area has shrunk by almost a third. The Jordan River, which once fed the super-salty lake, has been tapped for irrigating and drinking water by Israel ...

Salt storms are common in areas near the Aral Sea, but this one carried salt over a much wider area. Once one of the four largest seas on Earth, intensive irrigation projects set up by the Soviets ...

The Aral Sea’s demise matters to us all. ... Lake Mead and the Great Salt Lake are shrinking, and cities like Los Angeles are racing to balance their water needs with a changing climate.