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 sea now sits at the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, but to understand how it reached its current form, we need to cast our imagination back to the Soviet era. Back then, the Aral Sea ...

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

The Aral Sea straddles ... center of the sea. The research team used the data they obtained to create simulations showing the initial depression of the rock below the lake and then as it has ...

a potential springboard for sustainable transformation and cultural renewal in the Aral Sea region, once the fourth-largest lake in the world and now often seen as a tragic symbol of environmental ...

and afforestation of the dried bed of the Aral Sea. Now, with the support of the Global Environment Facility and UNDP Small Grants Programme, Zauresh and the project "100 Micro-nurseries for Aral ...

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 ...

A striking new satellite image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on April 4, 2025, shows the continuing collapse of the Aral Sea, which was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. The ...

More information: Wenzhi Fan et al, Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01664-w ...