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Resumption of mining comes as government prepares for COP29.

Activist asserts government measure to help environment actually exacerbates air pollution.

Draft agreement outlines scope of cooperation.

Main concern is whether Russian firm will get the construction contract.

Astana to present methane emissions reduction plan at COP29.

For government, the possible economic rewards outweigh the risks.

Government acknowledges need for “radical improvement” in efficiency of water usage.

Satellite imagery doesn’t provide clear answers.

Is Uzbekistan engaging in quiet water diplomacy?

Tajikistan has the dirtiest air in the region.

Both countries have set themselves ambitious renewable energy objectives for 2030 and beyond.

U.S. officials say the impact of the leak was “comparable to that of driving more than 717,000 petrol cars for a year.”

Stakeholders need to collaborate, tackle waste and address the elephant in the room: Afghanistan.

Activists are concerned the die-off may number into the thousands.

Amidst strained relations between Armenia and Russia, Russia's state atomic energy company will modernize Armenia's nuclear power plant and presumably build a new unit.

COP-28 proved a fruitful event for the promotion of green initiatives in Central Asia. EurasiaChat looked in its latest outing at how seriously governments will be held to their promises.

A raft of deal-making at the COP-28 summit will be a boon to the wind power agenda.

Environmental activists are skeptical of government assurances that a large tract of forest won't be turned into a privately managed hunting preserve.

Soyudlu residents' protest last month appears to have borne fruit, but the village is still under lockdown. And more people have been arrested for showing solidarity.

Environmental authorities have intensified water monitoring amid concerns about the wider effects of the Kakhovka dam collapse.

Ilham Aliyev asserted that Soyudlu residents have the right to protest in the face of environmental hazards, though he also backed the police, who brutally suppressed their demonstration.

Law enforcement continues to control movement in and out of the village of Soyudlu. More people have been arrested as well, including a former MP who represented the area.

Pro-war Russian singers get the door shut in their face, Kyrgyz political infighting, and methane emissions in Turkmenistan.

Video showed riot police spraying a chemical irritant directly into the faces of older female protesters.

The 230 MW Garadagh Solar Power Plant will be commissioned later this year, but questions over Baku's long term renewables strategy remain unanswered.