We ventured deep into the Kazakhstan desert to uncover one of the Soviet Union’s most secretive and ambitious Cold War ...

For the first time in Kazakhstan’s scientific history, a high-precision robotic telescope has been installed and launched in ...

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

Kazakhstan's oil regions have taken a hit from the global financial crisis, but Aktau is nevertheless proceeding with bold projects to propel regional development. However, there is a risk that the ...

West Kazakhstan Region – Heavy rain expected in the north; thunderstorms, hail, and squalls in the west, north, and east.

ZHYLTYR, Kazakhstan -- Houses and other buildings in the village of Zhyltyr, in the Aqtobe area of western Kazakhstan, are being buried in sand. Even the electric poles are losing their battles to ...

Desert marathon spotlights Kazakhstan’s fragile ecosystem The setting for the run, between two natural wonders near the Chinese border, was a stark reminder of how much this country has to lose.

Huge swathes of country becomes 'Silent Chernobyl' as 60,000 km2 desert springs up It ranks as one of the biggest ever man-made disasters in the world and is a legacy of decisions made by Soviet ...

In Kazakhstan, China’s neighbour to the west, this vast project has created a port. But there’s no water there, just desert… and trains running all the way from China through to Europe and ...

What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to Algeria, Kazakhstan and the California desert In researching her father’s biography, a writer uncovers little-known stories of ...

For over half a century, an army of researchers warily scanned the Kazakhstan desert in the former Soviet Union for signs of a ferocious threat to public health... gerbils. The furry creatures ...