The Qosh Tepa Canal is intended to open up huge areas for agriculture in northern Afghanistan. The main canal could be finished as early as this year, and could worsen water shortages among ...

Six months after regaining control ... of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Before the near-disappearance of the Aral Sea over the ...

The commission published data separately for Central Asia’s two major water sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Turkmenistan was the largest consumer of the Amu Darya’s resources ...

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 ...

In this first episode, French writer and traveller Cédric Gras follows the course of the Amu Darya River, from the dry plains of Uzbekistan to the peaks of Tajikistan. Through intensive farming, dams, ...

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 ...