Once the world's fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has shrunk due to Soviet-era irrigation, sparking crises as Uzbekistan fights desertification ...

From landlocked and mountainous Kyrgyzstan to miniscule Andorra, to the Pacific island country of Papua New Guinea, we take a ...

All territories of Uzbekistan except Kyzyl-kum desert (1); AP, Andijan District, Kutarma village (2); AP, Garden and Parks (3); AP, Shaxrixon district, Holdovonbek village (4); BP (5); FP (6); JP, ...

In multi-ethnic Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, dance is a lingua franca. A carpet, a speaker and an open space are enough ...

Harrogate resident Thorsten Bruce is gearing up for a remarkable adventure—an 8,000-mile cycling journey from his home to the ...

The vegetation of the Pan-Third Pole mainly includes forests (south of the Tibetan Plateau, Alps 36.0% of the total region); grassland (Tibetan Plateau, Pamir, Tianshan Mountains, etc. 32.3% of the ...

On Feb. 3, 2005, 104 people aboard an Afghan airliner died when it crashed in the mountains near Kabul. It was Afghanistan's ...

A high pressure system has established over the Tasman Sea and maintains a ridge across the eastern half of the state, while a trough remains mostly stationary in the far west. Little change to this ...

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