Most visitors to Uzbekistan stick to the Silk Road tourist trail, exploring the mosques and madrasas of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, and perhaps the intriguing mix of Islamic and Soviet modernist ...

Once a massive body of water, the only signs of its former glory are the eerie rusted ships that line what used to be a ...

In the heart of Central Asia lies the Aralkum Desert, a stark reminder of one of the world’s most severe environmental disasters. Once the seabed of the thriving Aral Sea, this vast expanse of 60,000 ...

It's been called one of the 20th century's most staggering ecological disasters. The Aral Sea was once one of the world's largest lakes, but over the course of nearly half a century, this giant body ...

Uzbekistan has announced two major environmental initiatives: the expansion of ecological recovery projects in Karakalpakstan, the region most affected by the Aral Sea crisis and the upcoming launch ...

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Once one of the world's largest inland lakes, the Aral Sea in Central Asia, has evaporated into the desert, its waters sucked dry by Soviet-era irrigation plans. It's been called one of the 20th ...