Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

the transition zone between the world’s highest commercially navigable lake and the world’s largest salt flat. Scientists have long suspected that Poopó would someday be choked with sediment ...

It supports the largest freshwater fishery in the world, producing a million tons of fish annually, according to the African Great Lakes Informational platform. It's also estimated to support ...

For the first time ever, research led by one of Utrecht University's earth scientists—Dr. Dan Palcu—has earned a place in the Guinness Book of World ... mega lake Paratethys, the largest ...