The drying up of the Aral Sea has made Central Asia 7% dustier in the last 30 years. Between 1984 and 2015, dust emissions from the growing desert almost doubled from 14 to 27 million tons.

By Eurasianet Water usage for irrigation and other purposes by Central Asian states was lower than permitted allotments in ...

When Alexander the Great conquered this territory in the fourth century B.C., these rivers already had a long history of providing lifeblood to Central Asia. For centuries the Aral Sea and its ...

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 ...

A CEE Bankwatch background report stressed that the evaporation of the Aral Sea was caused by extensive damming on the middle and lower portions of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, Central Asia’s ...

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

Connecticut College hosted Adeeb Khalid's visit for his public lecture “Central Asia in the Soviet Union: The Intertwined Histories of Nation, Empire, and Revolution” in the Charles Chu Room. This ...

Tokyo is a quiet but important partner to Central Asia, with notable engagement on projects related to the Aral Sea.

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 ...

The Central Asia region is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, particularly those related to water scarcity, land degradation and natural disasters (droughts, floods, mudslides). With a ...