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Remoteness vs Connectivity: Roads in High Tajikistan
At the first light of dawn, the Pamir Highway seems almost empty- just a thin ribbon of asphalt unspooling through rock and sky. A truck grinds up a long incline, leaving a wake of dust and echoes, and for a brief moment the only sound is the wind. From here, where the road cleaves the…
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Soils, Agriculture, Tajikistan, Erosion, Salinity, Farming, Land Management, Central Asia
The rivers of Tajikistan move fast. Snowmelt pours from glaciers, tumbling through gorges, twisting around boulders, white spray catching the light. For centuries these waters carved valleys, nourished fields, and gave rhythm to life. Today, they carry another kind of power: electricity. Hydropower plants line the Vakhsh and other rivers, their dams rising like walls…
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Vulnerable Basins
The sound comes first—a low rumble that grows into a roar. By the time villagers hear it clearly, the brown torrent is already spilling down the mountainside, carrying stones, branches, and the unmistakable smell of wet earth. In Tajikistan floods and mudflows are not rare events. They are seasonal realities, woven into life in valleys…
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Irrigation Systems, Decades of Use and Decay
The water begins high in the glaciers, clear and frigid, tumbling through rock gorges until it flattens into the valleys. By the time it reaches the cotton fields of the Vakhsh or the orchards of the Zarafshan, the water is a different thing altogether: it is clouded, diverted, slowed by gates and channels built decades…
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