Central Asia's rugged terrain was shaped by the ancient Tethys Ocean, not climate change or mantle flows, according to new ...

How were the Himalayan mountains shaped? Surprisingly, long before the collision between what is now India and Central Asia.

The Pamir Mountains, known as the "Roof of the World," form a vast, high-altitude system at the crossroads of Central and ...

This study is led by Dr. Sha Yingying, Dr. Shi Zhengguo, and their colleagues from the State Key Laboratory of Loess Science at the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The ...

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, sprawling ...

Snowfall shortages are now destabilizing some of the world’s last resilient glaciers, as shown by a new study in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains. Using a monitoring station on Kyzylsu Glacier, ...