The land which was the birth place of so many conquerors and warlords in the medieval world, is now a demure agrarian economy and is finding it hard even to continue with the traditional farming practices. Large tracts of arable lands are now...

The Aral Sea: It was once the fourth largest lake on Earth. But, over the past few decades, the sea has shrunk dramatically as the primary rivers that fed the Sea have been diverted and tapped nearly dry for cotton farming and other agriculture....