But his interests extend to all parts of the environment, and he has taken time off from his ... starting in the early 1980s. Over the years he watched the Aral Sea’s demise firsthand.

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up. The transformation of the freshwater ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea had nearly doubled in volume since 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. The Aral Sea between ...