Cross-section of the Earth's interior: crust, upper- and lower-mantle, and outer- and inner-cores. Journalists may use this image only with appropriate credit.

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 ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the ...