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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 ...
ASTANA — Kazakh Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has announced plans to create a new state nature reserve, Aral ...
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s ambition to address water security as a priority in the nation’s ...
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On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...
By Clare Nuttall in Almaty It was the tail end of the oil- and credit-fuelled 2000s boom when I arrived in Kazakhstan as bne’s brand new Central Asia correspondent back in spring 2008. The president ...
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 ...
The Department of Education is ramping up efforts to strengthen foundational learning from Kindergarten to Grade 3 as part of ...
The authors said lessons learned from work at the Salton Sea could also provide valuable insights for other rapidly drying, hypersaline lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the Aral Sea ...
The redirected water, planners hoped, could also help save the Aral Sea, which had seen catastrophic water loss in recent decades because its tributaries were over-exploited for agriculture.
New research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earths mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made environmental disaster has also led to the creation of the toxic Aralkum ...
It could be a similar story to the Aral Sea - where salty dust storms from the dried-up sea bed continue to make people sick.