A coalition of environmental organizations is calling on international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to reexamine the utility of financing hydropower ...

The bush is native to Central Asia and is a psammophyte ... raised the water level in the North Aral Sea to 42 meters, and parts of the waterfront made a comeback. But there are areas of the ...

When Alexander the Great conquered this territory in the fourth century B.C., these rivers already had a long history of providing lifeblood to Central Asia. For centuries the Aral Sea and its ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

The species subject to capture include the Caspian seal, Aral Sea shovelnose sturgeon, Aral barbel, nelma, and Caspian trout. The statement emphasized that only a restricted number of these ...

The abandoned vessels and a few rotting signs are the only remains of the port city that once stood on the banks of the Aral Sea. The water disappeared decades ago.

New finds in Central Asia, however, have led to many observers predicting the ... Tethys was the first company to discover oil immediately to the west of the Aral Sea. Tethys was the first company to ...