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.

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

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

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 ...

Caption Time series of reconstructed terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) and TWSA estimated from GRACE JPL-M over the (a) Amu Darya and (b) Indus basins. The red line shows GRACE ...