Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.

The Caspian Sea is shrinking at an alarming rate, a crisis now visible to the naked eye and driven by climate change and human activity. The post Caspian Sea Shrinks Dramatically, Exposes Seabed in ...

Herbert was haunted by the specter of unstoppable dunes. In Dune, he imagined a desert that swallowed an entire planet—an ...

ASTANA — Kazakh Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has announced plans to create a new state nature reserve, Aral ...

Stihia Festival attracts thousands to Muynak, Uzbekistan, spotlighting the Aral Sea’s environmental crisis while blending electronic music, art, and local culture on the site of a vanished sea.

The search for those missing after Yemen’s Houthi rebels sank a ship in the Red Sea has ended as at least four people are ...

With representatives from over 30 countries and 20 international organisations, the Eco Expo Central Asia 2025 served as a platform showcasing technologies and setting new policy directions.

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 ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface. Sixty years ago, located in Central Asia, the Aral Sea held more ...

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s ambition to address water security as a priority in the nation’s ...

Commercial ships are broadcasting messages about their nationality and even religion on their public tracking systems to ...