Holding back the desert Zadneprovskaya and her team have been planting black saxaul trees on a 500-hectare (1,235-acre) plot of land in the North Aral Sea region to help hold back the desert and ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ... the water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya into the surrounding desert. “Up until the early 1960s the system was fairly stable,” explained ...