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Satellite radar shows ground rising beneath the part of Aral Sea that has dried up
A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...
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Earth's upper mantle is revealing the deepest effect of human activity
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 rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...
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How Did One Of The World’s Largest Lakes Turn Into The World’s Youngest Desert?
U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...
Why are artists, architects and ecologists meeting in Uzbekistan’s Aral Sea Region?
By combining the power of art, culture, design and ecology, does the Aral Culture Summit have the potential to transform not ...
Kazakh lawmaker calls for regulation to protect Caspian Sea
A lawmaker from Kazakhstan's ruling party called on Wednesday for tougher regulation to protect the Caspian Sea, warning decades of pollution and shrinking water levels had decimated its plant and ...
Taliban’s desert water project offers great potential, but carries high risk
The Qosh Tepa Canal is intended to open up huge areas for agriculture in northern Afghanistan. The main canal could be ...
Water cooperation is essential when countries share lakes and rivers – yet it’s been deteriorating in many places, with serious consequences
Nationalistic behavior can put people, economies and ecosystems, and even peace, at risk. The US, which paused Columbia River talks with Canada, isn’t the only country shifting in this direction.