Now ecologists are planting saplings in the Aralkum Desert to bring trees ... North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and make the area more resilient to the impacts of climate change.

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, ...

Moynaq's many fishermen followed the lake's shrinking shores, but as the lake disappeared its salinity levels rose, killing all the fish. The town, heavily reliant on the fishing industry, slowly ...