A prehistoric fish species that once swam alongside the dinosaurs might still be clinging to life in a muddy stretch of river ...

ASTANA — Kazakhstan will prepare a national plan by September to develop its United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

U ntil the 1960s, the Aral Sea was one of the largest inland reservoirs of water in the world. Over seven decades, the lake ...

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It once covered a whopping 68million square kilometers and had a bustling fishing industry - but a fateful decision has seen ...

The dried-up bed of the Aral Sea, which has been shrinking since the 1960s, continues to rise due to swelling in the Earth's ...

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A new satellite image from the European Space Agency reveals the ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake.

Eighty-six year-old Khojabay lives in Kazakhstan in the middle of a vast ... Sea of its two main tributaries – the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya – and the sea started shrinking.

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, slightly ...

Their rapid melting threatens the flow of rivers like Syr Darya, which is shared by multiple countries, raising the risk of water shortages and conflict, the study said. The heat also came during ...