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Every unhappy country is unhappy in its own way.

Farmland and pastures across Central Asia are far less productive after decades of monocropping.

Glaciers are disappearing around the world. Here’s how it happens in Central Asia.

New research suggests that pollution thousands of miles away may be responsible for unusually strong summer downpours in Central Asia.

Astana accepts that it cannot force China to use less water upstream. But the BRI may help it reduce its own water waste, a new paper argues.

A journey down the terminal stretch of a once-mighty river highlights how hard it will be to fend off environmental catastrophe.

Disappearing glaciers mean less predictable water for irrigation.

China sources about 20 percent of its natural gas from or via Kazakhstan.

Readers are asking if YouTube has fully restored Eurasianet’s access to the platform after Turkmenistan got us briefly banned. Not entirely. For the record, here’s where things stand.

Geneticists say the popular vegetable was first domesticated in the region.

The DNA was collected in western China’s police state, Xinjiang. Could the subjects have said no without fearing retribution?

Some 98 percent of the articles Uzbek academics publish abroad appear in discredited journals.

If Central Asian farmers don’t radically change how they use water, the region will not feed China.

New technologies have allowed archeologists to re-examine how domestic animals spread from the Middle East to Asia.

New calculations suggest Uzbekistan is the world leader in misleading COVID mortality statistics.

Labor migration keeps millions from extreme poverty. But in the Caucasus and Central Asia it has created a vicious circle that undercuts job creation at home, a new study says.

To each their own annus horribilis.

Uzbekistan logs the biggest increase in ambivalence toward China.

As British legal tools catch up with the post-Soviet elite, their bankers, lawyers and reputation managers are entering the spotlight.

Many subjects are exotic props in a global class war. But the hard edge has dulled over the decades.

Our managing editor recaps the trends and stories that dominated the year, and shares a few of his favorite pieces.

Dissecting what a groundbreaking new economics paper means for Central Asia.

Can Uzbekistan inject life into a moribund talk shop?

His reports to the tsar make a fascinating historical record.

The dead president’s long shadow is fading. But he’s still Instagramable.