It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea is now a barren wasteland. This is the story of its dramatic collapse—one of the worst environmental disasters in history.

With representatives from over 30 countries and 20 international organisations, the Eco Expo Central Asia 2025 served as a ...

Damage to other sectors, quality of life (Spenser Heaps | Deseret News via the Great Salt Lake Collaborative) Cracked mud is seen on the dry lake bed of Owens Lake in Inyo County, California, in 2022.

The dried-up bed of the Aral Sea, which has been shrinking since the 1960s, continues to rise due to swelling in the Earth's mantle, according to a study published in Nature Geoscience, Azernews ...

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At the 2025 Samarkand Climate Forum, Karakalpakstan introduced the Aral Culture Summit to spotlight recovery, history, and future development beyond the environmental crisis of the Aral Sea.

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 ...

The drying out of the Aral Sea induced flow of the relatively weak asthenosphere beneath, demonstrating that human activity can influence mantle dynamics, according to numerical simulations of ...

What remain are piers that lead nowhere, the rusting carcasses of ships half-buried in the silt, and white, barren landscapes of exposed salt flats. Winds that whip across the lake bed blow salt ...

The Aral Sea, which formerly covered 68,000 square kilometers, began its decline in the 1960s and ultimately desiccated by the 2010s.

Since 2008, the volume of water in the northern, smaller part of the sea has “increased by 42% and reached 27 billion cubic metres”, the Central Asian republic’s Water Resources Ministry said.