Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

The Qosh Tepa canal issue essentially forces the Central Asian nations in the Amu Darya basin to make tradeoffs between regional instability and internal instability. With Taliban militants ...

The full publication can be accessed here. The Qoshtepa Canal, currently under construction in Afghanistan on the Amu Darya River, will dramatically affect the availability of water for irrigation ...

He’s also an environmental activist, chairing the Union for the Defense of the Aral Sea and Amu Darya. Heavyset, with a flowing mane of white hair, Kamalov descends from an influential Uzbek ...

It's a desert outpost which faces the orange desert of Turkmenistan on one side, and the fertile river valley of Amu Darya in the distance on the other. Although Uzbekistan has become an ...

a major tributary to the Amu Darya River which flows onwards to Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. “Now it is the time for the bank to reflect on past mistakes, listen to civil society ...

Caption Time series of reconstructed terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) and TWSA estimated from GRACE JPL-M over the (a) Amu Darya and (b) Indus basins. The red line shows GRACE ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led Interim Government has signed a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin and develop an oil reserve in the country’s northern Sar-e Pul ...