A devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, the Aral Sea—once ...
The Aral Sea, once the fourth-largest lake globally, witnessed a drastic reduction in size starting in the 1960s, primarily due to irrigation projects that diverted its lifeline water sources for ...
Once a shimmering 68,000-square-kilometer (26,000-square-mile) inland sea straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the Aral Sea was one of the largest lakes on Earth. For centuries, it sustained thriving ...
Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...