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 ...

The Aralkum Desert covers 60,000 square kilometres and sprang up in the place of the Aral Sea. Though smaller than the Karakum and Kyzylkum, it ranks as one of the biggest man-made deserts in the ...

Kazakhstan lost 10% of its forests in the decade up to 2016, ... Desert marathon spotlights Kazakhstan’s fragile ecosystem The setting for the run, between two natural wonders near the Chinese border, ...

China’s New Silk Road reaches across all parts of the globe; building roads, bridges and towering cities where before there were none. In Kazakhstan, China’s neighbour to the west, this vast ...

But I never appreciated what the desert meant to him. My father had an unusual life, so one day I decided to sit down and write a short essay about him. I started to write that he was born in ...

Desert gerbils signal plague. ... 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 ...