A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

The dried-up bed of the Aral Sea, which has been shrinking since the 1960s, continues to rise due to swelling in the Earth's ...

New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made ...

Last July the eastern sea dried up entirely. Each of these boats used to haul in tons of fish every year. The fleet has been rusting near the former Uzbek port of Muynoq since the Aral dried up ...

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In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared ... the rivers that once flowed through Central Asia have dried up.

Noroozi teamed up with reporter Victoria Milko and traveled to the once-mighty Aral, with the hope of finding enough people who still lived near the drying sea. The team crossed Uzbekistan and ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

The uplift is likely due to Earth's mantle reacting to the evaporation of the Aral Sea, the scientists said. The mantle is made up of viscous rock that can "flow" to replace material that has been ...