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.

Waiting for the sea It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.

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.

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

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

A unique partnership between Urban Pirates and the Casey Cares Foundation allows critically ill children to act like the kids they are.

Germany is cutting financial support for charities that rescue migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean, saying it will redirect resources to addressing conditions in source countries ...