The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
IN SEPETEMBER 1995, the presidents of the five republics which constitute the watershed of the Aral Sea - Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan met in Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, the autonomous republic of Uzbekistan (the worst affected by the tragedy). This was the fourth meeting of the presidents …
Muynak, which once lay on the coast of the Aral Sea nearly 70 km away from it. And since there is no road salty, toxic desert that has replaced the former seabed, it is no difficult to reach the Aral Sea from there. But a few determind fisherfoik still commute …
Can you describe the nature of the health problems encountered by you because of the Aral Sea crisis? The data analysed by us shows that we have increasing levels of anaernia in this region. Our research covers the period from 1982 to 1992 - when the Soviet system was still …
The gradual shrinking of the Aral Sea -- the world's 4th-largest inland waterbody -- has set alarm bells ringing in the Central Asian states that once formed part of the Soviet Union. Unresolved regional tensions over water use and ownership, and an indifferent international attitude, do not augur well for …
