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 ...

By Nizom Khodjayev in Astana The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is not a new topic in the CIS region by a long way, but alarm ...

B rutal Soviet-era farming practices severely damaged the Aral Sea's delicate ecosystem. Now ecologists are planting saplings ...

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 ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

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, formerly the world's fourth-largest lake, was then hit by a severe drought that evaporated so much of its water the lake split in two in 1986. "Because the weight of the water in the ...

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake ... Over eight decades, the lake lost more than 1.1 billion tonnes of water — roughly the mass of 150 Great Pyramids of Giza.

New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made environmental disaster has also led to the creation of the toxic Aralkum ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

In just a few decades, the vast Aral Sea has almost entirely disappeared. French writer and traveller Cédric Gras journeys through the region to understand why. Along the way he visits spectacular ...