A striking new satellite image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on April 4, 2025, illustrates the latest stage in the collapse of the Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake on Earth.

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral ... sea lying within Karakalpakstan. In 2002 the southern sea got so low that it too split into separate eastern and western seas.

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...