Tajikistan ranks as the sixth most polluted country globally according to the 2024 World Air Quality Report, with vehicle emissions identified as a major source of pollution. Central Asia is among ...

PANJAKENT, Tajikistan -- For the some 150 people in the tiny Tajik village of Khumgaron, the pollution and waste from the Chinese gold-mining operation nearby is not what they bargained for.

Living next to the Chinese-owned Zijin mines, villagers near Bor in eastern Serbia and Panjakent in western Tajikistan face the same threat: poisoned air, degraded farmland, and no recourse. At ...

At neweurasia, Gulru writes about water pollution in Tajikistan, saying that there Tajik citizens can be part of the solution. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of ...

“Air pollution remains the greatest environmental threat to human health,” the report states. “According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 99 percent of the global population lives in areas that ...

Globally, the five most polluted countries in 2021 were Bangladesh, Chad, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and India. These nations had air pollution levels at least 10 times higher than the WHO standards.

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution last year were in Asia, according to a new report, with the climate crisis playing a pivotal role in bad air quality that is ...

Tajikistan’s government has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30-40 percent by 2030 and is a signatory to both the Paris Agreement and the Kyoto Protocol. But, with the lowest GDP per ...

The pollution studied is called fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, because it refers to solid particles less than 2.5 micrometers in size: ... India and Tajikistan — are in South and Central Asia.

Tajikistan is energy starved—a situation that ... imposes an estimated annual economic hit of around 3% of GDP, 1 and causes unsustainably high rates of indoor air pollution and ...