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East Kolkata Wetlands: Where City Sewage Feeds Fish and Migratory Birds

Every day, roughly 750 million litres of Kolkata's untreated sewage flows east through a network of canals into a landscape that looks, from a distance, like an ordinary floodplain. It is not ordinary. The East Kolkata Wetlands are a 12,500-hectare system of sewage-fed fishponds, vegetable farms, and open water that…

Times Life · 13h ago

Wular and Hokersar: How Siltation Is Shrinking Kashmir's Freshwater Wetlands

Wular Lake in Bandipora district once spread across roughly 260 square kilometres. Today, depending on the season and the survey, that figure sits somewhere between 80 and 130 square kilometres. The rest has become reed beds, agricultural encroachments, and shallow mud flats that dry out in summer. Hokersar, a Ramsar-designated…

Times Life · Oct 27

Why a Messy City Lake Holds More Bird Species Than a Tidy Park

The Ecology of MessBare mud at a lake's edge is not a sign of neglect. It is foraging habitat. Waders such as the common sandpiper and little ringed plover work the exposed margins for invertebrates buried a centimetre or two down, and they need soft, uncompacted ground to do it.…

Times Life · Oct 21

US is coming to Central Asia with deals to stay, Rubio tells Euronews

Replying to Euronews' questions in Uzbekistan's historic city of Samarkand, the US secretary of state outlined plans for new commercial agreements and cooperation on critical minerals.

Euronews · Oct 19

How a $5 billion ‘Gas Ring’ could strengthen Central Asia’s energy security

A proposed $5bn (€4.45bn) gas network could help five Central Asian countries share supplies and meet winter demand. The ‘Gas Ring’ would link new and existing pipelines, but funding and agreements between governments remain to be finalised.

Euronews · Oct 19

Rubio arrives in Samarkand as Washington seeks closer ties with Central Asia

The US secretary of state will meet the foreign ministers of five Central Asian countries on Monday under the C5+1 format. Trade, investment, critical minerals and security are expected to feature in discussions, while more than 200 American business executives accompany the visit.

Euronews · Oct 18

Trump’s super intelligence diplomat: Marco Rubio

Trump changed AI to SI. Now he has created a new breed of SI diplomacy.

The Economic Times · Oct 17

EIB seeks cross-border projects to boost Central Asia’s economic development

The European Investment Bank is seeking to expand cross-border investments in Central Asia, while requiring projects to meet environmental standards and offer benefits for both regional economies and European industry.

Euronews · Oct 15

The 'biggest' risk to Asia’s economies isn’t over yet, IMF warns

The IMF has warned that a prolonged Middle East war and renewed disruptions to energy production, shipping routes and critical infrastructure pose the biggest risks to economies across the Middle East and Central Asia. With energy buffers thinning, the lender expects a sharp regional contraction in 2026, followed by an…

The Economic Times · Oct 15

Is Kazakhstan the birthplace of apples? Here’s how the fruit spread across the world

The part of the Tian Shan mountains that stretches from south-eastern Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan is home to the wild Sievers apple (Malus sieversii), the ancestor of every apple we know today. But how did it travel from Central Asia to orchards around the world?

Euronews · Oct 5