A coalition of environmental organizations is calling on international financial institutions, including the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, to reexamine the utility of financing hydropower ...

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 ...

Water usage for irrigation and other purposes by Central Asian states was lower than permitted allotments in 2024, despite generally adequate supplies, according to data published by the Interstate ...

Water has always shaped Central Asia’s political geography. Rivers flowing from the glaciers of the Tien Shan and Pamir mountains sustain agriculture, hydropower generation, food production, and ...

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 recent study conducted by researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has evaluated the effectiveness of climate models in predicting ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea of river agency is not new, but we are unfamiliar with it because human agency dominates our knowledge practices; as ...