To prevent history from repeating itself, the government is also incentivizing farmers to save water, now covering up to 80% of costs for water-saving technologies. Officials hope these measures will ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living ...

Ahead of the meeting, Bektenov met with heads of delegations. He emphasized Kazakhstan’s strong support for IFAS as an ...

"In this short documentary, we will take a closer look at the cause and consequences of the AralSea depletion that has been occurring during the past 60 years. The greed from the Soviet Union led to ...

Where water once stood is now an arid, dry, open landscape in western Kazakhstan punctuated with low-lying shrubs. Only when you finally reach the Little Aral Sea, known as Kishi Aral, can you feel ...

The Aral Sea was once the world's fourth largest lake, but 60 years ago, local industry diverted the rivers feeding the lake to irrigate cotton fields. Today, the lake is a quarter of its former size, ...

MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of it has deterred Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living ...

Once one of the worlds largest inland lakes, Asia's Aral Sea has evaporated into desert, dried by Soviet era irrigation plans. One village in Kazakhstan sits on the shrinking shores of the Aral Sea.

The desiccation of a remote island lake in Central Asia is one of the world's worst ecological disasters. Now, with an $85 million engineering project, the doomed sea is coming back to life. Ecologist ...

There is a place in Central Asia called the Aral Sea. In the 1950s, when it was part of the Soviet Union, Russia began to divert water from the two major rivers which fed this large body of water. The ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. In the US, there is concern about Lake Powell in Arizona ...