Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...

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 ...

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

The Aral Sea has been dying a long, slow death. This summer, another nail was driven into its coffin. Starting in the 1950s, when Soviet authorities began programs that diverted water from its ...

Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea now contains nearly 50 percent more water than in 2008, a rare environmental success story in a region plagued by pollution. The Barron's ...

The Aral Sea, which has been shrinking since the 1960’s due to agricultural activity, stretches from Uzbekistan in the south to Kazakhstan in the north and was pictured from the International Space ...

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

Mirtalipova’s parable-like account of the Aral Sea’s dwindling waters makes for a startling story of ecological change. A series of seven opening maps chronologically establishes the dramatic ...