The water volume of the North Aral Sea off of Kazakhstan has increased ... In Swindale, England, a previously rerouted river was restored to its original state, resulting in a thriving environment ...

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 ...

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 ...

The inaugural summit gathered international participants to what is now considered the site of one of the greatest man-made ...

Not only that, but there is a measurable bulge that extends far beyond the original shoreline of the Aral Sea. Scientists detected this bulge with a satellite remote-sensing technique called ...

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 ...

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake ... “it was anticipated that this rock would rebound by some small fraction of the original water depth while the weight was being removed.” ...

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 ...

A documentary film about the three remaining generations of fishermen in the Aral Sea-- Their everyday struggle to survive in one of the most dire and inhospitable places on the planet.

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 ...