About 90% of the Aral Sea has dried up. The exposed sediments have already released enormous amounts of carbon dioxide (748 ...

During a working visit to the Kyzylorda Region, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Nurzhan Nurzhigitov met with fishermen in the Aral district to discuss measures to preserve the North Aral ...

If you've ever walked past a drying lakebed in the peak of summer, you might have noticed some very unpleasant smells ...

New research shows Arctic winter sea ice loss has not stopped – it was temporarily hidden by natural variability.

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This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on ...

The Aral Sea sits between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and was once the fourth-largest inland body of water on Earth. For the ...

The 'Daryo' online publication was registered as a mass media outlet by the Uzbekistan Press and Information Agency (UzMAA, now the Agency of Information and Mass Communications under the ...

With major new commissions at Art Basel, the Venice Art Biennale and their first Seoul solo exhibition, the British-Japanese duo A.A.Murakami reveal how technology can deepen—not diminish—our ...

Deep within the desolate, salt-choked basins of the Kyzylkum Desert in Kazakhstan lies a geographical ghost. Once a prominent island in the heart of the Aral Sea, Barsa-Kelmes is a name that still ...