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The region's already meager electricity generation capacity is in jeopardy, and an "environmental disaster" could be at hand, the local de facto authorities say.

Turkmenistan is at last willing to discuss its full-blown water crisis. Our weekly briefing.

In the years before independence, Stepnogorsk had become a key node in Moscow’s biological weapons program and uranium industry. Now it is one of many Kazakh provincial towns framed by its Soviet legacy.

The affected section connects Georgia's east and west, as well as Europe and Asia, as part of the Middle Corridor route.

Uzbekistan is working to introduce penalties for wasting water.

The canal across northern Afghanistan will divert water from the dying Amu Darya river.

The ruling party says Western-funded NGOs aided what it called Russia-sponsored protests against the construction of a hydropower plant.

The initiative strives to get more women in the room when water-management decisions are made.

Police fired rubber bullets into the crowd protesting the acute water shortages that the president promised to address three years ago.

While the country's authoritarian rulers are utterly indifferent to political freedoms, how the investment regime is perceived is another matter. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

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

Conservation volunteers are driving international cooperation.

The Amulsar project had been suspended since 2018 because of fears of environmental hazards.

Green space is dwindling in Azerbaijan’s capital. Plans to remodel the Botanical Garden appear to make the problem worse.

The number of floods has been increasing with every passing year.

Farmers complain that rebounding populations are encroaching on their pastures.

Bishkek is now suffering with some of the world’s worst air pollution.

Chinese buses have survived corruption scandals to become the most obvious alternative to ubiquitous but problematic minibuses.

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

Can safety protocols be maintained in a poor country like Kyrgyzstan, where corruption is rampant?

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

Central Asia’s most populous country is suffering serious energy shortages. Chinese companies will be part of the solution.

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 joint venture with China has edged Kazatomprom, the world’s largest producer of uranium, into the nuclear fuel production cycle.

Russia is proposing a major reconfiguration of the Central Asian gas market. Our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.