Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. Search Query Show Search TEXAS NEWS ...

Standing for just one hour at the shore of Russia's Lake Karachay ("black water") in 1990 would have killed you. Before it ...

Straddling the borders of the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ... DOSPANOV: (Through interpreter) People would wake up, and there would be these massive dunes covering ...

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the ... the Soviet Union began diverting the rivers that fed the Aral Sea for cotton production, and over time, it dried out.

The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world, but today all that remains of it is a vast desert wasteland. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union began diverting the rivers that fed the Aral Sea ...