Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest lake. Now much of it is a vast toxic desert straddling the borders of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two former Soviet states in central Asia.

The lake, tucked between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the fourth-largest in the world. Today, after decades of being drained for irrigation, it’s nearly gone.

In Uzbekistan, an eerie ship graveyard filled with hauntingly beautiful shipwrecks beckons. The Moynaq Ship Graveyard is literally a ghost town in the middle of the desert. It was once a busy ...

By the 1980s, authorities even considered compounding the folly by diverting water from Lake Baikal in Siberia, more than 2,000 miles away, to the Aral region. The Soviet Union collapsed before ...

Our Postcard this week is from the desert in the east of Uzbekistan. Lake Aydarkul is one of the places where visitors can have that feeling of getting away from it all. It’s in Central Asia ...

Now, instead of trying to restore the lake, officials from the Uzbekistan Forestry Agency and locals are trying to plant a new forest where it once rested.