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

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

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and ... “that 40 years ago the water was 30 meters deep [98 feet] right here.” Our driver points through the windshield to a thick brown ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

Continued ground uplift long after the drying out of the Aral Sea demonstrates that human activity can provoke a response deep inside our planet, in this case by causing rock in Earth’s mantle ...

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 ...