Nations facing chronic water shortages might look to Chinese investment to upgrade their creaking Soviet-era infrastructure, ...

I don’t find evidence that [Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan] are yet grappling with the water needs of next-generation industries.” ...

Rivers do not just move water; they act as nature's hard drives, saving a permanent record of what happens on the surface. When toxic chemicals settle into the mud at the riverbed, they create a ...

A new international study led by Lander Van Tricht (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ETH Zürich), shows that glaciers in Central Asia experienced their most extreme mass-loss year on record in 2025, ...

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese ...

Researchers in Russia are once again evaluating a plan — first proposed more than a century ago — to divert water from Siberia’s Ob River to Central Asian countries currently facing acute shortages, ...

A little part of the Toktogul Reservoir seen through the surrounding mountains. Credit: Photo by Azamat E on Unsplash Every year, rain and snow that falls in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan provides water ...

Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage diplomatically, support infrastructure, and counter rival powers through ...

Central Asia’s prospects for critical mineral mining and transport connectivity will sink if the region cannot reach an agreement on water sustainability. The water crisis in Central Asia is one of ...