In the evolving story of global climate diplomacy, April 2026 may come to be seen as a defining moment for Central Asia. For ...

The inaugural Regional Ecological Summit in Astana has focused on cross-border cooperation as a blueprint for climate change ...

Chairperson of the country’s Arts and Culture Development Foundation discusses breaking new ground, from Bukhara to the ...

Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Wednesday hosted a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea (IFAS). Leaders from all five Central Asian countries - ...

A generation ago, the vanishing of the Aral Sea became global shorthand for environmental desolation. Today the region has become a test bed for a resilient future. A thermal spring, visited by locals ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Vozrozhdeniya Island, located in the Aral Sea along the Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan border, played a large part in the Soviet Union’s bioweapons program.

In 1990, National Geographic went to the Soviet Union to report on one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century: the shrinking of the Aral Sea. From the rusting deck of the boat he ...

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 ...

For decades the shrinking Aral Sea has been the poster child for environmental catastrophe. Behind images of rusty fishing boat shells sitting awkwardly among the sand dunes lies a story of human ...

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 ...