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In this week’s edition: is the Taliban’s controversial canal leaking water? Plus a Kyrgyz Kurultai turns into a cult fest for President Japarov, oil workers are striking in Western Kazakhstan, and smog returns to Bishkek.
Alaskan tribes, conservation groups, and fishers want more information, and involvement, when it comes to the B.C. government's plan to clean up the abandoned Tulsequah Chief mine site in northwestern B.C.
DEC issues waste management permit for exploratory drilling; plaintiffs weigh further challenge.
Amid worries of the Qosh Tepa canal damaging farmland, experts say crisis can be avoided by including Afghanistan in transboundary agreements
The Russian government has begun easing limits on pollutants that can be released into the aquifer of Siberia's unique Lake Baikal, which holds 20 percent of the world's freshwater, saying Western sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine have scuttled the previous cleanup plan.