The Ural river in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. (Wikimedia) When Nursultan Tauman went out for a stroll along the banks of the Ural River, he could not believe what he saw. ... Since December, more than 120 ...

2003-01-04 04:00:00 PDT Atyrau, Kazakstan-- As the poacher stood among the reeds cutting open a huge sturgeon, he seemed startled as a visitor approached his camp. But the heavy-set man soon ...

Water levels are falling on the Ural, the third-longest river in Europe. Despite a very snowy winter, the water level of the river did not rise at all this year. Pollution is also a problem, and a ...

Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe's third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the ...

Ural River gudgeons eat larvae of a specific fly species for the first year of their lives, before expanding their palette to include larvae of other insects, mollusks, ...

The dam was protecting the city from the waters of the Ural river. By Saturday morning, the water had reached several districts of the city, flooding nearly 2,400 residential buildings, TASS reported.

The Ural River, about 2,428 kilometers (1,509 miles) long, flows from the southern section of the Ural Mountains into the north end of the Caspian Sea, through Russia and Kazakhstan.

Last year, the Ural River experienced a record shallowing and its levels have been dropping steadily for the past 15 years. People living along the river and its tributaries talk about the drought ...

Hundreds of residents in southwestern Russia’s Ural region staged a rare protest Monday, ... built in 2010, did not protect them from the rising waters of the Ural River.