The region risks a second Aral Sea disaster on a far greater scale. Time is of the essence. The decisions made today will shape the future of the Caspian and the millions who depend on it.

Central Asia has a growing population, rising economic demand and severe water shortages that require greater coordination ...

Now a Desert," details the characteristics of the Aral Sea, the causes of its desiccation, its environmental impact and the measures taken by the Uzbek government to mitigate the disaster. During the ...

Lake Chad has shrunk to one tenth of its size since 1960, with every danger that it could one day disappear like Aral Sea. How can that not be a major disaster for millions of people that for ...

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 ...

Now, with war raging in the Middle East, efforts to tackle this ever-worsening ecological disaster appear to have dissolved too. "Regional cooperation is the key... to saving the Dead Sea," said ...