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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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

The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake ... The Earth's crust slowly rose after the water weight decreased from the original surface. Scientists employed InSAR satellite technology ...

But the experience isn’t unique to Asia. The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan has shrunk to a fraction of its original size in recent decades. Russia’s Caspian Sea – the world’s largest lake ...

A freak weather event in one of the world’s most densely-populated areas is threatening two billion lives. It has stopped snowing in the Himalayas. As a result, the water supply two billion people is ...

The confluence continues as the Amu Darya, the largest river in Central Asia, running to the Aral Sea. The Reserve includes extensive ... Asiatic poplar tugay ecosystem has been preserved in its ...

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 ...