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Risks associated with the aging, coal-powered status quo are growing.

The prime minister promised to do business differently. But he owes Moscow.

International sanctions against Russia will provide some unanticipated upside developments for Turkmenistan. This and more in our weekly briefing.

A regime finds itself between ‘oligopoly’ and a hard place.

Hyperlocal activism over green issues has been on the rise, but its resurgence is hurting the interests of tycoons profiting from the natural resource extraction sector.

The hydropower facility is the source of 40 percent of Kyrgyzstan’s electricity.

Miners say they are losing $1 million daily because of the cut.

Amid pressures from climate change, hydropower dams are further disrupting cross-border water supplies. Part two in a series.

Water disputes helped escalate the conflict into all-out war. Left unaddressed, they pose the same risk again. The first in a three-part series.

Her social media bot promises to help Uzbek farmers get their goods to market while increasing their profit margins.

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.

The new proposal’s modest scope, and new diplomatic developments, could finally make the pipeline feasible.

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.

Until now, officials had been silent about ongoing power cuts, even calling them a thing of the past.

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.

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.

Once celebrated for its greenery, Bishkek now has some of the world’s worst smog.

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

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