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

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

07.04.2025, 11:05 Kazakhstan to receive 3.7 billion bcm of Syr Darya water for 2025 irrigation season ALMATY. April 7 (Interfax-Kazakhstan) - Kazakhstan expects to receive approximately 3.7 billion ...

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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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Water disputes over river basins—the Colorado, the Ganges-Brahmaputra, the Syr Darya-Ana Darya (in Kazakhstan), and the Nile, to name but a few—are a global phenomenon. The Middle East is one of the ...

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

The Aral Sea once sat on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and was the fourth largest inland water body on the planet, supplied by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. In the 1960s ...

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 ...