Perhaps even more frightening is the revelation that the Aral Sea once was home to a secret Soviet biological weapons testing facility. Located on Vozrozhdeniya Island—which, now that the sea is ...

The loss of the Aral Sea in central Asia is an ecological disaster. Toxic chemicals in the exposed sea bed have caused widespread health problems. Can an ambitious project to plant millions of ...

The aim is to create an eco-corridor to the Barsakelmes biospherer eserve, a former Aral Sea island inhabited by free-roaming kulans [wild donkeys] and dzerens [goitered gazelles]. By October 2025 ...