The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...

One of the most infamous and well recognized instances of human-caused environmental catastrophe happened in the Aral Sea in the Central Asian steppes. Once, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake ...

The Aral Sea crisis. The collapse of the Aral Sea is one of the largest man-made environmental disasters in history. During the 1960s, the Soviet Union diverted water from the Amu Darya and Syr ...

ASTANA — Kazakh Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has announced plans to create a new state nature reserve, Aral ...

As the Aral Sea died, the region’s once-rich pastures and forests began to degrade, according to Mr. Dospanov. Birds, insects and other wildlife that depend on the sea and its wider environment ...

And the International Innovation Center for Aral Sea Basin, a government agency in the region, is growing hardy plants in soil collected from the former lakebed. This data isn’t just useful for ...

Uplift of the Aral Sea region, which totaled 1.6 inches (40 mm) between 2016 and 2020, will continue for many decades, according to the study.

The shrinking Aral Sea Once one of the largest inland lakes, ... October 29, 2024 • The water starved region of Central Asia is facing another threat to its beleaguered water supply ...

Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans.

NUKUS, Uzbekistan, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Aral Culture Summit (ACS), a cultural and environmental initiative to revitalise the Aral Sea region in Central Asia will take place from 4-6 April ...

Aral Culture Summit (ACS), a cultural and environmental initiative to revitalise the Aral Sea region in Central Asia will take place from 4-6 April 2025. Organised by the Uzbekistan Art and ...