In Uzbekistan, the Aral Sea, one of history’s worst environmental disasters, is now a tourist attraction. What can it teach us about the fate of humankind?
Officials from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan agreed on Monday to launch a special working group that will work to restore the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-biggest lake.
When a port loses its water, it’s not much of a port anymore. But it just might become a booming tourist destination because “a lot of people want to see an ecological crisis.”
The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate.