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

Unwrap the world of art and gift a digital-only subscription to The Art Newspaper In a corner of Uzbekistan, close to the ...

In the early 1990s, when Abdulvakhid Bukhoriy was an art student in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, a professor gave him a book on traditional Uzbek ceramics. In it, he learned that his hometown of ...

China lost its grasslands; we are losing the Aravallis. A deep dive into the global history of environmental collapse and why ...

Once among the world’s largest lakes, the Aral Sea has almost vanished due to massive Soviet irrigation schemes; this documentary examines the environmental damage, the impact on surrounding ...

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 ...

From a one-off story to the stars of the next 'Doctor Who' spinoff, the Sea Devils are a creature that's always struggled with the spotlight. Reading time 5 minutes Doctor Who has plenty of iconic ...

An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for global ...

The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

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 ...

Simon Goodman has provided advice to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Caspian seal conservation, and in the past has conducted research and advised oil and gas companies in the ...

Energy and trade on the Caspian Sea remain very important for the region’s, and even the world’s, growth and prosperity. The Caspian region, a vital geopolitical crossroads and emerging trade artery, ...