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 ...

The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...

Special Series The shrinking Aral Sea Once one of the largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia has been disappearing. Here's what it means for the people who live there.

Life in the Kazakh village where what remains of the Aral Sea still supports a tiny fishing industry and the families that depend on it.

The Little Aral Sea has lost a third of its water. Kazakh fishermen, whose livelihoods are becoming more difficult every year, worry it may repeat the fate of the Aral Sea, which largely dried up ...

Mr. Dreyer, an editor and writer, wrote from Muynak, Uzbekistan. Walking toward the shrinking remnants of what used to be the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was like entering hell. All around was a desert ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water, with some 68,000 square kilometers (26,300 square miles).

The Aral Sea was once an important location surrounded by fishing villages and even home to a Russian Naval Flotilla.

Muynak, Uzbekistan • Walking toward the shrinking remnants of what used to be the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was like entering hell. All around was a desert devoid of life, aside from scrubby saxaul ...

The Aral Sea once supported large communities. But since the sea nearly completely disappeared, fewer people are left to keep the communities and customs alive.

MUYNAK, UZBEKISTAN — Weddings, school dances, music festivals — in small pockets along the Aral Sea, there are signs of life. The Aral has nearly disappeared, and the large communities it once ...