The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an ...

A new satellite image from the European Space Agency reveals the ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake.

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan—it was once the fourth largest saline lake in the world. But since the 1960s, it has been shrinking because water from the ...

In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. In this first episode, French writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Amu Darya River, from the dry plains ...

The Aral Sea's disappearance displaced 1.1 billion tons of water, causing Earth’s mantle to rise. A silent, human-made shift ...

The Aral Sea in central Asia was once one of the world ... “The unbending creates space, and the rocks want to flow into it,” says Barbot. This delayed response in a hot, weak region of ...

and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea. Mention the Aral Sea or search for it online, and apocalyptic scenes appear. A lake once so vast it is still called a sea ...

An emergent initiative dedicated to the social and environmental transformation of the Aral Sea region through art, culture, design and science debuts 4-6 April 2025. To be inaugurated during the ...