Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage ...

In Central Asia, water has long been taken for granted. In Soviet days, huge fountains splashing water about in the hot summers were a standard feature of any self-respecting town. Despite the fact ...

The confluence continues to the largest river in Central Asia, running to the Aral Sea, called the Amu Darya, which gets 40 percent of its water from the Vakhsh River.

The Naryn River starts in eastern Kyrgyzstan's high mountains and flows hundreds of kilometers downstream to meet the Kara Darya and form Central Asia's longest river, the Syr Darya.

The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and its major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, were the centre of advanced river civilisations, and a principal hub of the Silk Roads over a period of more ...

“Two Rivers,” Carolyn Drake’s upcoming book, is a photographic record of the area in Central Asia that follows the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, the region’s major rivers.

"Drake's Central Asia is a place where political allegiances, ethnic bonds, national borders, and even physical geography are in such flux as to seem, at times, like fictions. Following the two rivers ...

A study of long-term river dynamics and ancient irrigation networks challenges the long-held view that destruction of Central Asia's medieval riverine civilizations was a direct result of the ...

I’ve also spent a lot of time on the Chinese side of Central Asia, working on a project about Uighurs. It’s something I photographed in parallel to Two Rivers, and with equal interest.

Five Central Asian nations met at the first regional workshop focused specifically on finding shared solutions to the ...

More information: Aminjon Gulakhmadov et al, Modeling of historical and future changes in temperature and precipitation in the Panj River Basin in Central Asia under the CMIP5 RCP and CMIP6 SSP ...