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 ...

Afghanistan is rapidly constructing the Qosh Tepa Canal, a waterway meant to help irrigate more than 500,000 hectares of its arid northern regions, for which it will redirect 20–30% of the Amu Darya ...

Turbaned Afghan officials and hard-hatted Chinese engineers gathered in Afghanistan's Sar-e-Pul province in 2023 to mark the opening of Chinese-invested oil fields. The fields are located in the Amu ...

The Amu Darya Basin Inspection Unit, created in cooperation with WWF, managed to save hundreds of hectares of forests in the Amu Darya river basin. How many trees can be logged by a group of 12 if ...

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 water starved region of Central Asia is facing another threat to its beleaguered water supply — the construction of a massive canal by the Taliban across the border in Afghanistan. It's been ...