In the province of Jowzjan in the north of Afghanistan, the construction of the Kush-Tepa land reclamation complex is nearing ...

The Qosh Tepa canal issue essentially forces the Central Asian nations in the Amu Darya basin to make tradeoffs between regional instability and internal instability. With Taliban militants ...

Combined with Afghanistan’s agro-industrial expansion, this may lead to extensive land degradation and heightened salinity in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya River. In layman’s terms ...

The full publication can be accessed here. The Qoshtepa Canal, currently under construction in Afghanistan on the Amu Darya River, will dramatically affect the availability of water for irrigation and ...

A broad plateau stretches from north of the Hindu Kush to the Amu Darya River and eventually to the Russian steppes. In the east, the mountains are indistinguishable from those of Pakistan.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led Interim Government has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin and develop an oil reserve in the country’s northern Sar-e Pul ...

It has no clear beginning or end. For centuries the river, which is also known as the Amu Darya, has served as the border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan. The Oxus is the longest river in ...

Both Rivers later become the famous Amu Darya (Oxus River), one of the four legendary rivers of Paradise in the Islamic folklore. From the Afghan city of Ishkashim, area for about 350 km is a ...

Caption Time series of reconstructed terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) and TWSA estimated from GRACE JPL-M over the (a) Amu Darya and (b) Indus basins. The red line shows GRACE ...