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 ...

Ayaz-Kala The Amu Darya – known as the Oxus in antiquity – has supported ... but many people turned to fishing for sustenance after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991: Men with rods line the Shavat in ...

The Amu Darya, one of two main rivers that for millennia fed the now rapidly shrinking Aral Sea, no longer does. Reporting by VOA along the length of the river in Uzbekistan has confirmed that ...

The commission published data separately for Central Asia’s two major water sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Turkmenistan was the largest consumer of the Amu Darya’s resources ...

Caption Time series of reconstructed terrestrial water storage anomalies (TWSA) and TWSA estimated from GRACE JPL-M over the (a) Amu Darya and (b) Indus basins. The red line shows GRACE ...

The ruling Taliban has signed a deal with a Chinese company to extract oil from northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin as the radical Islamist group attempts to bolster the South Asian nation ...