Way up in the mountains of central Asia, a bizarre, hairy creature skitters across the rocky ground. Scientists who were hiking in the remote region happened to spot the animal and determined it ...

Growing water scarcity means that water in Central Asia will one day be more valuable than oil. The warning, once delivered ...

Hidden in the towering mountains of Central Asia, along what has been called the Silk Road, archaeologists are uncovering two medieval cities that may have bustled with inhabitants a thousand ...

The Central Tian-Shan are so deep in the ... Much must still be done be- fore these great mountain ranges of Cen- tral Asia are properly explored or cor- rectly mapped, but Dr. Merzbacher's ...

Because the surrounding Malguzar Mountains were rich in iron ore ... Because of their position between East and West Asia, the Central Asian cities of Samarkand and Bukhara served as important ...

ASTANA – Downstream countries in Central Asia could face growing water shortages as intensive agricultural practices, climate ...

The “Five Stans” – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – are formidable former Soviet Union republics in the heart of Central Asia. This Central Asian region ...

“This changes everything we thought we knew.” Lidar is helping uncover medieval cities high in the mountains of Central Asia along the Silk Road where trade caravans, like this one depicted in ...

High in the mountains of Uzbekistan ... “These would have been important urban hubs in central Asia, especially as you moved out of lowland oases and into more challenging high-altitude settings ...

Between 14 and 30 percent of glaciers in the Tian-Shan and Pamir—the two main mountain ranges in Central Asia—have melted over the last 60 years, according to a report by the Eurasian ...

Between 14 and 30% of glaciers in the Tian-Shan and Pamir -- the two main mountain ranges in Central Asia -- have melted over the last 60 years, according to a report by the Eurasian Development Bank.