A prehistoric fish species that once swam alongside the dinosaurs might still be clinging to life in a muddy stretch of river ...

Back then, the Aral Sea's two main sources of fresh water were the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, rivers that fed the salt lake with fresh water and maintained this basin in a mostly arid region.

The Aral Sea once sat on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and was the fourth largest inland water body on the planet, supplied by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. In the 1960s ...

New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made ...

A new satellite image from the European Space Agency reveals the ongoing collapse of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake.

As any visitor will learn by travelling along the banks of the Syr Darya River, the Fergana Valley has been shaped by its privileged geographical setting, attracting people—it is one of the most ...

The commission published data separately for Central Asia’s two major water sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Turkmenistan was the largest consumer of the Amu Darya’s resources, slightly ...

Their rapid melting threatens the flow of rivers like Syr Darya, which is shared by multiple countries, raising the risk of water shortages and conflict, the study said. The heat also came during ...