Glacial lakes are among the most sensitive indicators of climate change. With the ongoing climate warming, the number and area of glacial lakes are dramatically increased, particularly in High ...

Uralic languages, which includes Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian, are distinctly different from Indo-European languages that ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Rising trade tensions, global policy uncertainty, and regional conflicts are presenting challenges to economies in the Middle East and North Africa and Caucasus and Central Asia regions. Policymakers ...

Genetic research traced the ancestral homeland of Uralic people, whose descendants live in Russia, Hungary, Finland and ...

Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved? The strange fate of a group of skiers in the Ural Mountains has generated endless speculation.

Overview This High Mountain Asia (HMA) data set contains hydrological flow directions at 5 arc-minute resolution for the headwaters of the Amu Darya and Indus River basins. The domain spans parts of ...

Uzbekistan has climbed 19 spots to rank 62nd in the 2025 Global Sustainable Development Index, earning recognition as the fastest-improving country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe since 2015, with ...

Overview This data set contains 8-meter Digital Elevation Model (DEM) mosaics of high mountain Asia glacier and snow regions generated from from very-high-resolution commercial stereo satellite ...

As challenging as this might seem, the alternative will be far costlier to Asia and Europe – and to the rest of the world. Shang-Jin Wei, a former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, is ...

Every year, 1.8 million people in Europe and Central Asia die from avoidable deaths from noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, heart disease, chronic respiratory issues, and diabetes, according ...

As US credibility falters, Asia and Europe must lead global stability Given that everyone will suffer from these shocks, cooperation to ameliorate them should be a priority, especially for Asia and ...