Seen from the sky, with its turquoise waters stretching out into the desert expanses in the shape of a crescent, you can see why they call Lake Balkhash the "pearl of Kazakhstan". But pollution ...

The Russian authorities have had to deny media reports that a Siberian lake popular with tourists has been transferred in its entirely to neighbouring Kazakhstan. Reports that Lake Sladkoye was ...

CORRECTS headline and para 1 to read nearly 50 percent more water sted 100 more Kazakhstan said on Monday the northern part of the Aral Sea now contains nearly 50 percent more water than in 2008 ...

In Kazakhstan's national parks, pleasure comes from the blisteringly huge landscapes, but also from proximity to nature: listening to the soft waves of a mountain lake lapping against the shore or ...

The Aral Sea between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan was once the fourth largest lake in the world, before Soviet irrigation projects caused most of it to dry up.