Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage ...

Compared to single-channel meandering rivers, multichannel braided rivers are often found in environments with sparse ...

In June, the former U.S. Coast Guard ship USCGC Mellon —one of 12 Hamilton -class high-endurance cutters—arrived in Vietnam ...

Recent archaeological findings at the Mapu Tsho Lake in Kangmar county, Shigatse, the Xizang autonomous region suggest that ...

A new study delivers a stark warning that Central Asia has overshot its environmental safety limits concerning land footprint ...

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Europe Asia Borders Definition 1: Ural Mountain, Ural River, and the Caspian Sea are what separate Europe from Asia. This puts Georgia on the European side. A second definition states that the ...

Most of the mapped bifurcations are on inland rivers, with nearly 30,000 in Asia, more than 12,000 in North and Central America, nearly 10,000 in South America, and nearly 4,000 in Europe.

Communities living along Brazil’s Madeira River are bracing for lower flows amid extreme drought and heat in the Amazon basin. The Lead Covering an area of more than 1,000 square miles, Cambodia’s ...

But it adds that many of those two rivers’ high-mountain tributaries remain undeveloped. A detailed map designed by the NGO coalition indicates that the NarynRiver in Kyrgyzstan and the Pyanj River ...

FALLING WATER: The braids on the Yarlung Tsangpo (Barhmaputra) near Lhasa before it enters a series of gorges where the world's largest hydroelectric plant is being built by China. Photo: KUNDA DIXIT ...