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, ...

North Caspian Petroleum Ltd., a subsidiary of International Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has reached final depth of 2,019 m at Well A-8, fourth well on the large Alakol block in eastern Kazakhstan along the ...

The fourth Bikefest, Balkhash-Nursaya 2010, will take place on the coast of the Balkhash lake in the south-east of Kazakhstan on July 16-18. The bikefest organizers announced that bikers from Russia, ...

Chinese plans to divert a river that flows into the lake come under scrutiny. Scientists fear the lake might disappear in just a few years. Should this happen several nations would suffer a major ...

Lake Balkhash in southeastern Kazakhstan is shrinking. For fishermen like Erbolgan Erbosynov, it's an existential threat. Fish are everything to him: his livelihood, his culture, and his tradition.

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, ...

Viewed from space, the Balkhash drainage basin resembles a shape of life: many thin blue veins, flowing towards their heart. The likeness is fitting, as survival in southeastern Kazakhstan, an area ...

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 ...

Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central Asia, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The lake, which is situated in east-central Kazakhastan, is ...

About the East Balkhash 2 licence area The East Balkhash 2 licence covers an area of approximately 6,000 km 2 in the Eastern Kazakhstan Administrative Region (Fig. 1). It is located immediately west ...

Almasadam Satkaliyev added that survey works are currently underway at the site of the future plant ASTANA, November 21. /TASS/. Kazakhstan's first-ever nuclear power plant (NPP) Balkhash, with the ...