Uzbekistan has exceeded its 2026 cotton harvest target, collecting 4.63mn tons as of October 22, or 103% of the annual target, with nearly 3,000 machines harvesting 76% of the crop, while cotton ...

​The Aral Sea Returns Author: Chris TrickettSource of material: https://saqtimes.kz/en/ecology/aral-sea-returns/ Image from ...

More than 56 million saxaul seedlings have been planted across 1.1 million hectares of the dried Aral Seabed over six years, Qazinform News Agency cites Kazakhstan's Ministry of Ecology and Natural ...

From March 23 to June 13, 2026, I crossed the Eurasian continent by bus over 73 days. This section explains the course ...

The Qosh Tepa Canal, under construction in northern Afghanistan, is more than an irrigation project. It is a test of Central Asia’s ability to manage a shared river in a changing political and ...

Against this backdrop, the Caspian Environmental Summit held in Turkmenistan on October 9, 2026, marks a potentially ...

Leaders from across Eurasia gathered in Turkmenistan for three summits focused on strengthening regional trade, transport connectivity and economic cooperation, while addressing the growing ...

The former Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces of Kazakhstan's Armed Forces has been detained as part of a criminal investigation into the deaths of servicemen during military exercises in the ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insists his country must have access to the Red Sea. On Monday, he reiterated this stance despite neighboring countries asserting that the sea's governance is for ...

The offensive is an effort to wrest control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait from the Houthis, who are backed by Iran.

Soviet hydrologists ran the numbers before the first canal was cut, and they said the sea would die. They signed off anyway. Cotton earned foreign currency, and a large salty lake sitting in the ...

The drying of the Aral Sea has created another environmental problem: according to a study, exposed lakebed sediments released about 748 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere between 1960 and 2022.