From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

Anson Mackay received funding from INTAS between 2003-2005 to research water level change in the Aral Sea over recent millennia. The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Large parts of western Uzbekistan and northern Turkmenistan are recovering from a severe salt storm that has damaged agriculture and livestock herds. The ...

Brushing the dust from his hat and lying on the floor inside his home, Ali Shadilov recalls how he and other fishermen used to laugh at town elders who warned that the enormous sea they relied on was ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living ...

The coastline vanished from his village long before Kenzhetay Akseitov was born. With it went the fishing that had once been the backbone of the local economy, leaving the nearby salt works as the ...

The Aral Sea is a well known environmental disaster zone. But this year, it got a whole worse, writes Anson Mackay, as its biggest basin dried up completely to expose a toxic, salty wasteland. With ...

In this tale of two halves Paul Lauener reports from Kazakhstan on the fate of the Aral Sea as one part makes what could be the Earth’s greatest environmental comeback and another turns into an ...

In October 1990 Western scientists confirmed the virtual disappearance of the Aral Sea in Soviet Central Asia, formerly the fourth largest inland sea in the world. The loss of sea water was the result ...

As the sun rises above the Aral Sea, Alek, a local fisherman, steers the boat, leans forward and pulls the net out of the glittering water. It is full of carp, sturgeon and flounder - just two years ...

An aerial view of the ship graveyard near Muynak over the dried up Aral Sea in Uzbekistan Credit: Photo: AP The sea which has shrunk by 90 per cent has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left ...