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 ...

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

As part of its efforts to become an energy hub, Egypt awarded oil and gas exploration concessions in the Red Sea for the first time to Chevron, Shell and Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala ...

MANILA, (PIA) — Google has increased the visibility of the label “West Philippine Sea” on its Maps platform, a change that has been warmly welcomed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), ...

“I have been researching deep-sea squids, including the colossal, since the early 2000s, and I can say that this is honestly one of the most exciting observations that we’ve had across the ...

Today, the Aral Sea "is a mere vestige of its former self," Lamb wrote. Water levels were so low by 2007 that one of the two lakes that formed in 1986 further split into two. In 2020, one of the ...

Flanked by the Chocolate Mountains and the fertile green acres of California's Imperial Valley, the Salton Sea is one of the most spectacular and bizarre bodies of water in the United States.

Satellite data, in other words, only gives a rough idea of what lies beneath the sea. Only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor has been carefully mapped, which means we know less about 71 percent ...

On the first floor, it introduces the country's efforts to revitalize the Aral Sea, a lake in northern Uzbekistan that has largely turned to desert. Visitors travel between floors in a 360-degree ...