This has been one of numerous problems plaguing the fisherfolk around the Aral Sea, a shallow basin of salt water straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan believes that water security has become a key to the country’s sustainable development, Kazinform News Agency has learnt from the Akorda press service.

As the rotating presidency of the SCO, China upholds the principle of "extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared ...

Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.

The Aral Sea, in Central Asia, used to be the fourth largest lake in the world, after the Caspian Sea, and Lakes Superior and Victoria. Now barely 10% of it is left.

According to data from the country's Hydrometeorological Agency, the phenomenon has increased more than tenfold in the last thirty years as a result of climate change and intensive access to water ...

Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea is now a barren wasteland. This is the story of its dramatic collapse—one ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

Italy and Turkmenistan have launched a joint environmental project to improve the ecological situation in the Aral Sea region ...

ASTANA – The Kazakh-French joint venture KATCO, established by global nuclear leader Orano Group and Kazakhstan’s national ...

With representatives from over 30 countries and 20 international organisations, the Eco Expo Central Asia 2025 served as a ...

The Aral Sea has lost about 90% of its volume since the 1960s, the most dramatic man-made environmental disaster in history. The drying of the Aral Sea has increased temperature extremes in the ...