ASTANA — Kazakh Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has announced plans to create a new state nature reserve, Aral ...

The environmental disaster dubbed the "Quiet Chernobyl" still affects Earth's mantle today, with land around the Aral Sea ...

This has been one of numerous problems plaguing the fisherfolk around the Aral Sea, a shallow basin of salt water straddling the boundary between Kazakhstan to the north and Uzbekistan to the south.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan believes that water security has become a key to the country’s sustainable development, Kazinform News Agency has learnt from the Akorda press service.

Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.

Waiting for the sea It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.

According to data from the country's Hydrometeorological Agency, the phenomenon has increased more than tenfold in the last thirty years as a result of climate change and intensive access to water ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface. Sixty years ago, located in Central Asia, the Aral Sea held more ...

More than 3,000 Tuvaluans have applied for a landmark climate visa to move to Australia, as rising seas threaten to engulf vulnerable areas of the South Pacific island. Australia last week opened ...

Ready to hit the high seas Southeast Kansas is nowhere near any type of ocean, but that hasn't stopped Humboldt's Taylor Korte from pursuing her education in marine mammal science.

Located between Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest landlocked body ...

Italy and Turkmenistan have launched a joint environmental project to improve the ecological situation in the Aral Sea region ...