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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.

Discontent simmers while Georgian Manganese, the leading exporter of ferroalloys and manganese ores, says it is unable to sell what used to be the country's key export product.

Officials have tried to ignore the situation for years, but appear to have been spurred into action by the president.

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.