Kazakhstan’s forests face threats from illegal logging, poaching, climate change, and fires. In 2024, the officials conducted ...

(If you look at it on a map, you’ll see that it’s stretched ... A disastrous Soviet water diversion project in the 1960s dried up the Aral Sea, turning the area into desert and decimating ...

The name, Barsakelmes, meaning “you will go and not return” in Kazakh, refers to a vanished island in the Aral Sea—one of the most striking examples ... Imagination of Central Asia on the Map of ...

BP plans to explore for new oil fields in the Azeri Caspian Sea, BP's upstream chief Gordon Birrell told Reuters.

Foraminifera are single-celled marine organisms with a calcareous shell. They not only provide evidence of past habitats, but ...

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Three Kazakh fisheries officials have driven down from the Aral Sea in a big Soviet-era truck to supervise the efforts to find the lost fish. One of them, Tynysbek Barakbayev, leans against the ...

During the Soviet era, a division of the Caspian Flotilla was based in the Aral Sea. Image by Ekaterina Venkina. 2024. The corroded hulls of ships seem to be floating above the ash-gray dunes. They ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta ... they are able to find known foraging areas using an internal magnetic ‘map’. This map and an internal magnetic ‘compass’ rely on distinct ...

Logistics firm Crowley, the operator of MV Stena Immaculate, said all crew was accounted for after the collision in the North Sea, near Grimsby.

Languages: English. A new map reveals where in the state of California the land is gradually sinking, exacerbating future risks related to rising global sea levels. The work—undertaken by remote ...

The water volume of the North Aral Sea off of Kazakhstan has increased by 42% to 27 billion cubic meters, according to The Times of Central Asia. This is a large improvement to the local environment, ...