The Oasis project is in a remote area of the Aralkum Desert. There is a simple base camp, a 500-metre-deep borehole well, and a seedling nursery tucked away behind a reed hedge. Some of the saxaul ...

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Filled with ghost cities, the region of Karakalpakstan takes up one-third of Uzbekistan’s territory – yet lies completely off ...

Writer Joel Day in the former harbour of Karakalpakstan with a rotting Soviet-era ship - Joel Day ...

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The February 2021 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what we are looking at, where it is, and ...