The impact of the Caspian Sea’s shrinking waters extends beyond its shores. Home to diverse wildlife, the sea hosts six ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Caspian Sea is a unique and irreplaceable natural treasure. Protecting it means holding polluters accountable, and that requires transparency.

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 ...

A striking new satellite image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on April 4, 2025, illustrates the latest stage in the collapse of the Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake on Earth.

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 ...

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 ...