It's been called the Nile of Central Asia. The Amu Darya River flows for thousands of miles through four countries and eventually spills into the shrinking Aral Sea. Now a canal being built by the ...

Climate change and water scarcity are harsh realities facing Central Asia. Glaciers in the east, in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, are rapidly melting, while in the west, Uzbekistan and ...

The Qosh Tepa Canal is intended to open up huge areas for agriculture in northern Afghanistan. The main canal could be finished as early as this year, and could worsen water shortages among ...

Thomas Pesquet: A fertile area in a desert region, by the Amu Darya river. Rivers bring water, and water brings life and food. ????If there is one thing I have noticed this mission it is that ...

The Qosh Tepa canal issue essentially forces the Central Asian nations in the Amu Darya basin to make tradeoffs between regional instability and internal instability. With Taliban militants marooned ...

Tumar, a 14-year-old Karakalpak shepherd, sits on a ledge watching over her flock on a beautiful sunny day. Down in the valley below, the Amu Darya River flows calmly as Bobur, a 14-year-old Uzbek boy ...

China National Petroleum Corp. has been awarded three Amu Darya basin exploratory blocks in Afghanistan’s 2011 license round. The blocks are understood to be Kashkari, Bazarkhami and Zamarudsay, which ...

The countdown to the drawdown of foreign forces in Afghanistan at the end of this year is on. Afghanistan’s neighbors are already seeking allies in Afghanistan to act as a buffer between them and the ...