The long trip by a frail, 87-year-old pope was seen as a bold endeavor and a muscular step for a global church looking East.

Near a wooden hut high in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked toward a pile of gray rocks, recalling how ...

The OSCE Gender Issues Programme, within the framework of the WIN Project, and the United Nations Population Fund's (UNFPA) Regional Office for ...

regia in Central Asia, which will provide a key prerequisite for evidence-based conservation and management." More information: Linjiang Ye et al, Population genetic insights into the conservation ...

The melting of thousands of glaciers is a major threat to people in the landlocked region that already suffers from a ...

He said their task was to monitor and predict the water flow and to "draw up maps to ensure people ... home to most of Central Asia's population. Aside from rising temperatures, glaciers also ...

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how ...

In the West, though, surnames only began being used around 1000 CE, when the combined pressures of a growing population and .

Near a wooden hut high up in the Kyrgyz mountains, scientist Gulbara Omorova walked to a pile of grey rocks, reminiscing how ...

Almost 30% of glaciers in the Tian-Shan and Pamir -- the two main mountain ranges in Central Asia -- have melted over the ...

The five countries that make up Central Asia—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—have a total population of ... designations used, in maps or articles do not ...

But in term of mainstream press coverage, Central Asian has been off the map. Central Asia, while probably in the news about ... The logic was that the population in these Central Asian republics was ...