Niğmet and Ali are both from the village of Tekelioğlu, which abutted the lake. Niğmet fished in its waters, she reminisces, eating what she caught. Ali learned to swim in Marmara Lake when he was a ...

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when the learned fisherman finds no fish at all? This has been one of numerous ...

One of the most infamous and well recognized instances of human-caused environmental catastrophe happened in the Aral Sea in the Central Asian steppes. Once, the Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake ...

On December 17 the World Bank is set to vote on financing the Rogun mega dam project in Tajikistan. If the vote passes, it would make one of the wildest dreams of the Tajik regime come true. The $5bn ...

Qazaq Carbon, a Kazakhstani platform, is pioneering the development of a voluntary carbon market in the country, with a focus on environmental restoration and community welfare. The Aral Sea region, ...

The Aral Sea straddles the border of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It was once one of the world's largest lakes, but after years of being drained to irrigate crops, it ...