The Soviet Union literally destroyed the Aral Sea. This nation's going to bring it back. Kazakhstan's ambitious plan to save the Aral Sea is starting to pay off.

Watch One Of The World's Largest Lakes Shrink Before Your Eyes Going, going, nearly gone.

Mesmerizing GIF shows the slow death of a sea The Aral Sea used to be one of the largest lakes in the world. Now, it's just 10% of its former size.

Why a Giant Green Lake Turned Blood-Red Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades.

Why A Giant Green Lake Turned Blood-Red Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades. Now the lake, once one of the largest in the Middle East, looks more l Read more ... ike a gigantic crime scene.

Can the Aral Sea Be Revived? The Aral Sea once covered some 26,000 square miles (41,800 square kilometers)—an area larger than the state of West Virginia—with water.

Aral Sea Looks Like a Painting from Space The Aral Sea is shrinking, leaving a dried-up white lakebed where there used to be blue water. The image actually combines three separate radar scans: the red parts show data from Oct. 17 2014, the green from Dec. 28 2014 and blue from Feb. 14 2015.

Satellite Image Of The Aral Sea Looks Like An Abstract Painting This beautiful satellite image of the Aral Sea belies the destruction it reveals: Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, it has lost nearly 90% of its water volume in the last 50 years. The reason is due to irrigation projects that h Read more ... ave effectively destroyed the region’s fishing indus…

These before and after photos show the devastating effect humans are having on the planet A series of photos shows how quickly the Earth is changing, including before-and-after pictures of the parched Aral Sea, Alaska's melting Muir glacier and the urban sprawl of Beijing.