But over time a large part of the 97.5 cubic kilometres of water carried annually by the Amu Darya on its 2,414-kilometre journey from the Pamir mountains became swallowed up by the Uzbek cotton ...

The drying of one of the world’s largest lakes is among the greatest human-made disasters to ever impact the Earth’s surface.

ISLAMABAD -- Afghanistan's Taliban government has terminated a two-year-old oil extraction and development contract with a Chinese company due to alleged violations of contractual obligations, with ...

Gone are the days when digital tools were treated as mere after thoughts to conventional development programs. Today, ADB is deploying digital as an enabler to open new frontiers in climate resilience ...

Advisory Ben Aris in Berlin Uzbekistan has recorded remarkable growth over the past six years. The value of GDP has doubled, ...

The ancient Greek city of Ai-Khanoum in Afghanistan was discovered in the 1960s, but its demise has captivated archaeologists ...

By bne IntelliNews Uzbekistan’s Termez border trade hub with Afghanistan has seen a sharp decline in footfall attributed to a newly applied Taliban ban on Afghan women under 40 from entering it.

A 25-year oil contract for the Amu Darya field was cancelled due to repeated violations by the Chinese company involved. < ...

Experts, however, warn that if Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan receive less water from the Amu Darya, to mitigate losses, they may start taking more water from the Syr Darya River, of which they are ...

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 ...

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 ...

The water offtake from the Amu Darya for irrigation is no longer enough to grow rice. Rice to the bottom Rice is one of the most important agricultural crops of Uzbekistan and the main components of ...