Natalya Telezhinskaya, a regional historian, always suspected that there was something different about the tightly guarded factory that officially made fertilizer 10 kilometers outside her hometown of ...

Biological weapons engineers who worked to create the world’s biggest anthrax-manufacturing plant are now laboring to dismantle it and wondering whether they’ll find jobs again. The scrapping of the ...

Bakyt Atshabar has worked for the anti-plague Institute for more than 25 years, and for much of that time there was little need for security guards and fences and heavy metal doors with keypad locks.

While pro-government environmental groups were hailing a decision to relocate hundreds of tons of toxic waste from the shores of Kazakhstan’s Lake Balkhash, no one anticipated resistance in the ...

Ride the Stepnogorsk Railway, a unique Soviet-era line isolated from Kazakhstan's main network! Experience cheap elektrichka trains and desolate landscapes on this unusual journey. Alina Habba resigns ...

Europe's water is under increasing pressure. Pollution, droughts, floods are taking their toll on our drinking water, lakes, rivers and coastlines. Join us on a journey around Europe to see why ...