This story originally appeared in Vlast.kz. Over the past five years, the Ural River’s level has dropped so much that it seriously impedes river traffic. Such professions as ship-repair mechanic and ...

Water levels are falling on the Ural, the third-longest river in Europe. The river begins in Russia's Ural Mountains, flowing through Kazakhstan before emptying into the Caspian Sea. This year, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said. The dam ...

When Nursultan Tauman went out for a stroll along the banks of the Ural River, he could not believe what he saw. “Dead fish, floating on the dirty river,” recalled Tauman, a native of the western ...

Thousands of Russians have been evacuated from their homes after an embankment dam broke in the southern region of Orenburg, near Kazakhstan, authorities said. The dam in the city of Orsk could not ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Nearly 12,000 houses have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan as water levels in the Ural River keep rising and threatening more deluge, authorities said Thursday. The ...

Russian officials scrambled to help homeowners displaced by floods as water levels rose in the Ural River, authorities said Wednesday. Floods in the Orenburg region near Russia's border with ...

Orenburg Mayor Sergey Salmin said that the city’s South Ural water intake facility was not currently jeopardized and that the water treatment facilities were operating as usual ORENBURG, April 10.

This was CNBC's live blog tracking developments on the war in Ukraine. See below for the latest updates. Overnight attacks by Russia on Ukraine damaged infrastructure and private homes, regional ...

A new species of gudgeon was discovered in the Ural River of western Russia. Turbanov IS, Bolotovskiy AA, Artaev ON, Gandlin AA, Levina MA, Vasil’eva ED, Levin BA (2025) Zoosystematics and Evolution ...