“The saddest and most frustrating thing about the tragedy of the Aral Sea is that the Soviet officials at the Ministry of Water who designed the irrigation canals knew full well that they were ...

The authorities only acknowledged the disappearance of the Aral Sea after the fall of the Soviet Union. When they identified the problem, they started work on a solution. And it's a solution that ...

A top secret Russian nuclear base was placed on combat alert in the ... "We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike." According to the ...

Brutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem ... a small city about 74 miles from base camp. She first saw the Aral when she was four.

Peterson's Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin is by far the best study we have of the history behind the region's current environmental problems: its cotton monoculture. It ...

Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the sea has shrunk by 90 percent since the rivers that feed it were largely diverted in a Soviet project ... he said. The Aral Sea catastrophe is one ...

Kurt Johnson in the desert in Uzbekistan on the spot of the former sealine of the Aral Sea. Old rusty fishermen boats are seen in the background ...