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Uzbekistan's Aral Sea Disaster: An Environmental Catastrophe
The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth-largest inland lake, a vast blue expanse in the heart of Central Asia. Today, it's nearly gone—a dry, toxic desert called the Aralkum. This episode of The Story of Uzbekistan dives into one of the most shocking environmental disasters of the 20th century: the deliberate destruction of the Aral Sea. We trace its origins to Soviet irrigation projects that diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers for cotton farming in the 1960s. We discuss the human cost—the fishing communities of Moynaq that lost their livelihood, the respiratory illnesses…
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