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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake first split into smaller lakes, until most of its original surface had ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ecological ruin but the source of an extraordinary geological ripple. A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals ...