Anton Balazh / shutterstock December 23, 2020 The Caspian Sea is set to fall by 9 metres or more this century – an ecocide is imminent Frank Wesselingh, Utrecht University and Matteo Lattuada, University of Giessen Climate change means more water is evaporating than is flowing in.
Damning development. Wikimedia Commons/Mimi Abebayehu November 28, 2018 ‘World’s worst environmental disaster’ set to be repeated with controversial new dam in Africa Timothy Clack, University of Oxford When the Aral Sea dried up, it was called the “world’s worst environmental disaster”. We’re witnessing its equivalent in Africa.
Worth it for cheap cotton? so11e October 3, 2014 Humans drained the Aral Sea once before – but there are no free refills this time round Anson Mackay, UCL The Aral Sea has reached a new low, literally and figuratively; new satellite images from NASA show that, for the first time in its recorded history, the largest basin has completely dried up. However…