By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm ...

New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made environmental disaster has also led to the creation of the toxic Aralkum ...

Aralsk's economy was dependent on the water. Then, around 1975, rumors began to spread that the Aral was receding. "My mother, who was a teacher, read in a science magazine that if the sea ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Aral Sea is shrinking at an incredibly rapid rate. Produced by Maya Dangerfield. Images courtesy of NASA. Follow TI: On Facebook More from Tech The Aral Sea is ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... But camel farms, which replaced fishing trawlers 35 years ago, drive the local economy. That night we camp on the plateau and cook dinner ...

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 Aral Sea, formerly the world's fourth-largest lake ... "quiet Chernobyl" in 2014 due to its widespread ecological and economic consequences.

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the ...

The collapse of the Aral Sea is one of the largest man ... biodiversity plummeted, and the local economy, which relied on the Sea, collapsed. The region's residents, particularly in the town ...