emphasizing the unprecedented scale of the crisis. The collapse of the Aral Sea began in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union initiated large-scale irrigation projects to turn Central Asia into a ...

Uzbekistan’s future in the critical minerals market will not be defined by its abundance of resources, but by the policies it enacts to ensure an economic boom does not come at the cost of ...

This spot was once the tip of a peninsula jutting into the Aral Sea, which up until the 1960s was the world’s fourth largest inland body of water, covering some 26,000 square miles—an area ...

A photojournalist’s pitch turned into a project that took this team to a remote area rarely covered by news outlets Photojournalist Ebrahim Noroozi had a vision when he pitched a story on the Aral Sea ...

In addition, it may accelerate the melting of glaciers and thus exacerbate the water crisis in the region. Until the early 1960s, the Aral Sea in Central Asia was the fourth largest lake in the ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, March 17. The Samarkand Climate Forum will take place on April 4-5, 2025, bringing together global ...