Tashkent, Uzbekistan – Paynet has donated 300 million UZS to support UNDP's Green Aral Sea initiative, a crowdfunding project working to restore life to the dried Aral Sea bed. This contribution will ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once one of the world's largest lakes, but after years of being drained to irrigate crops, it ...

The Aral Sea has nearly disappeared over the last 60 years. Now, its source rivers are depleting. View the full project: https://apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shrinking-map ...

Daniel Wood is a visual journalist at NPR, where he brings data and analyses into complex topics by paired reporting with custom charts, maps and explainers. He focuses on data-rich topics like ...

Rebirth Island, of course, is the English translation for its original Russian name, Vozrozhdeniya. This is a real island in ...

One million seals once lived in the Caspian Sea, near Cop29, about 100 years ago but today less than 10 per cent remain with ...

Stock/Getty Images I arrived in Nukus by leaping from a moving train. My trip from the former Silk Road trading town of ...

Tugunbulak could have housed as many as 5,000 residents with the only source of food being pastured animals or what could be ...

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A map of the Caspian Sea. ‘The climate here is tough ... ‘It feels like the Caspian is heading for the same fate as the Aral Sea. The solution is political and beyond us,’ says the civil servant.

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