What began as a Soviet-era irrigation project in the 1960s has become a long shadow cast deep into the Earth’s interior. The Aral Sea, once the world’s fourth-largest lake, is now not only a dried-out ...

Once among the world’s largest lakes, the Aral Sea has almost vanished due to massive Soviet irrigation schemes; this ...

Alexander the Great's empire spanned much of the known world, but historians are still debating whether he knew about the ...

Central Asia's desiccated Aral Sea is steadily rising as Earth's mantle beneath it bulges, new research suggests. The uplift is due to the "quiet Chernobyl" environmental disaster that struck the ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Kazakhstan Steers Regional Dialogue Toward Caspian Sea's Future At Ashgabat Forum. BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 13. The ...