In search of the true source of the River Oxus, I journeyed to the Pamir Mountains, on the Afghanistan-Tajikistan border ...

Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or ...

Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

Some of the world’s biggest megacities are located in river deltas threatened by subsidence due to excessive groundwater ...

Abstract: Machine learning has become a critical tool in biological studies for both prediction and discovery. This paper specifically focuses on distinguishing between sea otters and their similar ...

ASTANA – The shrinking of the Caspian Sea is no longer just an environmental issue but an economic one. While sea levels have ...

You may be unfamiliar with the Aral Sea. However, once upon a time it was the third or fourth-largest (accounts differ) lake in the world. Located between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the lake was ...

Vital infrastructure like water pipes and electrical lines run beneath rivers such as the Susquehanna and Chenango. Aging underwater pipes, some over 100 years old, have caused major service ...

Nukus, Karakalpakstan – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, the Karakalpak Research Institute of Agriculture, and the Rice ...

Long before dinosaurs, some rivers were anything but safe. Giant eurypterids, often called sea scorpions, thrived in prehistoric waterways. Some species grew longer than a human and dominated as apex ...