Lakes are an important part of any local environment, and large lakes are especially critical for things like irrigation, fishing, recreation, and even regulating the local climate. One massive body ...

The water volume of the North Aral Sea off of Kazakhstan has increased by 42% to 27 billion cubic meters, according to The Times of Central Asia. This is a large improvement to the local environment, ...

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 ...

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th ...

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 ...

June 24 (Reuters) - The Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, has shrunk by 70 percent in recent decades in what environmentalists describe as one of the worst man-made ecological disasters.

Attribution researches the influence of climate change on local weather and impacts. We issues alerts in many instances when the Climate Shift Index identifies a notable extreme weather event around ...

Uzbekistan will place one of the world’s most dramatic environmental transformations at the centre of its national pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Titled The ...

Vozrozhdeniya Island was a major test site for lethal viruses, plague bacteria, and anthrax spores.

There has been plenty of negative news of late about the damage done by global warming in Kazakhstan, but the Ministry of Water Resources recently had a positive tidbit to announce: the Northern Aral ...

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 ...