ASTANA – The International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) approved the work plan for the period of Kazakhstan’s ...

ASTANA — Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov met with leaders of Central Asian delegations on Sep. 18 during the first session of ...

Penati, Beatrice 2020. Imperial desert dreams: cotton growing and irrigation in Central Asia, 1860–1991. Central Asian Survey, Vol. 39, Issue. 1, p. 161.

Pollution, climate change and its overuse are threatening the existence of one of the most unique stretches of water in the ...

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how ...

The health of the Great Salt Lake is directly tied to that of the millions of people who live near it, but our leaders are ...

Here is the famous Steppe, the dry grass-land, the never-ending plain stretching across Eurasia from China to Hungary. Rainfall is too limited for trees to grow. The climate is harsh, with hot ...

There is now desert where much of the world’s fourth-largest lake used to be, and the economic, health, and environmental ...

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

Dubai, UAE – The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) Delegation led by Director General Dr. Tarifa Al Zaabi ...

The Aral Sea was once the size of Ireland and surrounded by fishing villages. Today, it's a toxic desert because of Russian irrigation and hydropower projects ...

Some of the world’s once-great cities have vanished, leaving only crumbling ruins as evidence of their existence.