The town, heavily reliant on the fishing industry, slowly died along with it. The eastern basin of the Aral Sea is now known as the Aralkum desert. It is said that the Aral Sea disaster could be ...

The Aral Sea started to shrink in the 1960s when ... Moynaq's old shoreline is now a graveyard of old fishing ships As the volume of water decreased, the concentration of salt increased, poisoning ...

In the US, there is concern about Lake Powell in Arizona drying up due to a 20-year drought and climate change. But has a ...

Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the sea has shrunk by ... near the hulks of stranded ships. “On the pier, I wasn’t seeing anything, I could see only a graveyard of ships,” Ban ...