The Aral Sea is drying out, one of the most severe ecological disasters caused by humans. The region has been devastated, but ...

TASHKENT, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A joint scientific expedition on the ecological environment of the Aral Sea aimed at addressing ... network covering the entire basin has also been preliminarily ...

The Aral Sea was once the third-largest lake in the world and home to a Russian Naval Flotilla. This inland body of water was the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. As well as ...

The Aral Sea is located in the ‘Turan Lowland’ or ‘Aral Sea Basin’ which stretches from close to the Caspian Sea to the Tian Shan mountains. Lake Balkash lies in a separate depression. Tectonically, ...

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Hundreds of California sea lions have taken over San Carlos Beach in Monterey, California, prompting local officials to close the area to people. Caution tape has been put up but crowds are ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three years China built seven new bases in the Spratly Islands, three of them ...

Moreover, the dust storms originating from the Aral Sea basin reached as far as the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains, causing glaciers on those mountains to melt faster. Recognizing the severity of the ...