Most visitors to Uzbekistan stick to the Silk Road tourist trail, exploring the mosques and madrasas of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, and perhaps the intriguing mix of Islamic and Soviet modernist ...

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Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. It's been called one of the 20th ...

The Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, but today the lake has all but dried. Images from NASA show how the lake has rapidly dried since 2000. "In 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 ...

Uzbekistan has announced two major environmental initiatives: the expansion of ecological recovery projects in Karakalpakstan, the region most affected by the Aral Sea crisis and the upcoming launch ...

It's been called one of the 20th century's most staggering ecological disasters. The Aral Sea was once one of the world's largest lakes, but over the course of nearly half a century, this giant body ...