Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees to where water once lapped. When Maria Zadneprovskaya first saw the Aral Sea in 2021, she was overcome by a raw ...

A Kootenay man, environmental consultant Michael Keefer who lives in Rossland and Cranbrook, was invited to go to Uzbekistan for a conference on solutions to the Aralkum Desert problem. While there, ...