Rice is a pillar of Uzbekistan’s agriculture. But the climate crisis affecting the region’s two main rivers means that a ...

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 ...

To support these agricultural ambitions, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers—the lake’s only sources of freshwater—were diverted to irrigate 7 million hectares (1.7 million acres) of cotton ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...