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A former top U.S. diplomat reflects on Central Asia’s identity crisis.

The threshold of permitted CO2 emissions will decline annually by 5.4 percent through 2025.

A grassroots environmental campaign has implications far beyond the small Kazakh town where it started.

Grid inefficiencies and the small-timer surge are leaving some miners in a tough spot.

The country no longer has a choice, the president says.

Officials blame an 8 percent spike in consumption on crypto miners from China.

Relations between upstream and downstream Central Asian countries can be tense. This won’t help.

ArcelorMittal Temirtau has begun engaging, but air quality is not improving.

Even in the late 1990s, there were already signs that President Rahmon would ignore the peace accords, writes the former U.S. ambassador.

The wetlands are critical to the local watershed and home to at least 172 bird species.

Turkmenistan needs food staples and energy-rich Kazakhstan is, surprisingly, short of gas. The mechanics of a deal and more in our weekly briefing.

Government agencies and Kazakh-Chinese companies are using the pandemic to shield themselves from scrutiny.

But how much coal Kazakhstan already sells China is a mystery, because the two sides publish different figures.

A senior American official describes trying to square two Bush administration priorities: human rights and the Global War on Terror.

Kazakhstan’s energy needs are overwhelmingly served by burning dirty coal.