Attacks by unknown assailants entering Tajik territory appear to target Chinese businesses and workers. Tensions are flaring ...

Discover how ice cores from the Pamir Mountains could unlock secrets to protect the world's glaciers from climate change.

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

Scientists have repeatedly warned of accelerated Himalayan melt, with impacts on river flows, water security and hydropower generation across India and neighbouring countries.

Some link the anomaly to the area's cold climate or even increased use of agricultural water in Pakistan that creates more ...

As steam coils upward from espresso machines in a landscape of perpetual snow, it signals more than a simple caffeine fix. It ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

Tajikistan ranks among the world’s most vulnerable countries to land degradation, according to a November report from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Nearly 70 percent of the country ...

The Kon Chukurbashi ice cap in the Pamir Mountains of eastern Tajikistan is the only mountainous region in the world where ...

Ice core samples taken from a glacier in the Pamir mountain range in Tajikistan are stored in a -50 degree C storage room in ...

Nature likes to show off, and it has a way of sculpting ice into jaw-dropping masterpieces. These glaciers look like ...