In summer sunshine, the waters of Lake Balkhash shimmer a startling bright blue. At weekends, the beach is busy with local families, splashing in the waves and sunbathing on the sand. Behind them loom ...

Some of Hubble's most "impactful" observations captured comet fragments crashing into Jupiter. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was shredded by Jupiter’s gravity, and its fragments (21 in all) plunged into ...

Russia on Friday launched work to build the first nuclear power plant in Kazakhstan, the world’s biggest uranium producer and vast Central Asian state where Moscow, Beijing and Europe are all vying ...

But Lake Balkhash in Kazakhstan is different – it’s both freshwater and saline, with the two sides barely mixing. Separated by the narrow Uzynaral Strait, the lake’s western side is fed by the Ili ...

Russian energy entities, including Rosatom, are experiencing significant financing difficulties, raising doubts about their ability to fulfill international energy project commitments. Kazakhstan has ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, July 16. The Akimat (regional government) of Kazakhstan’s Karaganda region has posted a message seeking investors to build hotels on Lake Balkhash, Trend reports via the Akimat of ...

The UN has warned that Lake Balkhash, the second largest lake in Central Asia after the Aral Sea, could dry up, creating another major environmental crisis in the region. Forty times the size of Lake ...

Nazym Arzimbetova, who fights to preserve the memory of her uncle who disappeared during World War Two, stands before the Memorial of Glory in Almaty, Kazakhstan, May 14, 2025. DANIL USMANOV FOR M LE ...

Lake Balkhash.—Mr. B. F. Meffert, who visited this lake during a journey in Russian Asia in 1910. has given an account of its basin in the Izvestiya of the Imp. Russ. Geogr. Soc., Nos. i.–v., 1912.

If you've ever driven by a lake you're familiar with and lamented that the water was clearly lower than it had been before, then you probably also know the thrill that you feel when water levels rise.

In an interview with The Astana Times, they recounted their experience, the challenges they faced along the way, and the warm encounters with locals that made the journey worthwhile. Lake Balkhash, ...