Aral Sea

"The Far East in the fast lane" is the title of the new book by journalist and truck driver Jochen Dieckmann. It chronicles his adventurous journey, which he undertook in 2019 along the new Silk Road. In one of the photos Jochen Dieckmann brought back from his trip around the…

We drove out of Khiva on a bright and blistering summer morning. The shared taxi passed over the Amu Darya River, pulsing with Himalayan snow melt, and drove on past rich, irrigated fields and away from the massive domed mosques and medieval tile work of Uzbekistan’s Silk Road cities. We…

When shoppers entered H&M's flagship store in central London last summer, the first thing they would have seen was a dark blue, flowery minidress hanging front and center. On sale for just £4 (or $4.80 US), the dress featured more than a low price tag. It also boasted a green…

The Trip: after decades of isolation, Tashkent is on the up Weekly at Wallpaper*, ‘The Trip’ takes you on a detailed tour of an under-explored town, city or territory, direct from your living room. This week’s feature is from our January 2020 issue (W*250), when we dispatched Deyan Sudjic, former…

Submission + - SPAM: The Lost Sea | AJ –Canada's Environmental Voice Submitted by alternativesjournal on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @01:39PM alternativesjournal writes: Alternatives Journal (AJ) is Canada’s renewable energy magazine recent study shows that the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake on the planet. Now, it more closely…

We need a new approach to making and buying clothes because the current system is unsustainable.The fast fashion industry continues to cause significant environmental damage, a new report says, and revising our approach to clothes should be a top priority. The report, titled "The Environmental Price of Fast Fashion," was…

Deforestation is leading us toward a world without forests, where animals won’t be able to survive.The primate population is declining and many might have to live in captivity to guarantee their survival.Glaciers have been melting at twice their normal rate since the turn of the century.An oil leak could be just a technical failure for us, but birds will need help to be able to fly free again.Everyone…

A tumultuous discussion raged in the hall of Mstislav III “The Old” Romanovich, the Grand Prince of Kiev, in March 1223. An embassy of Turkic-speaking Polovtsian nomads humbly stood before the throne of the Russian prince. The embassy had arrived earlier in the day bearing rich gifts that included a bounty…

UPSC IAS Prelims Exam 2020 is just around the corner. Aspirants are meticulously preparing to qualify the first stage of the IAS selection process. Environment and Ecology section covers a significant part of the prelims paper and 10-12 questions have been repeatedly asked in the past 5 years prelims exam.…

Get 35 Questions on Geography for UPSC IAS Prelims 2020 preparation. In the UPSC Civil Service Exam 2019, 12 questions were asked from the Indian and World Geography. After a careful and curative analysis of past 3 years’ UPSC IAS Prelims paper, we discovered that 6 questions were asked from…