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 devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth.

Today, in lieu of the Aral Sea, there is a desert peppered with abandoned, rusted ships. | Credit: Eddie Gerald/Getty Images ...

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

Silent Chernobyl made the Earth’s mantle move towards Aral Sea The Aral Sea, desiccated years back, has now bulged beneath the land The land is uplifting every year by 0.3 inches discovered by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...