Such disasters are worsened by climate change. In an effort to mitigate the damage, the Taliban has resumed several key infrastructure projects, including the Qosh Tepa canal in northern Afghanistan, ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Environmental systems scientist at the University of Delaware. There has also been a tentative agreement reached between China and Pakistan ...

Neither the Helmand River Treaty nor customary international law denies Afghanistan the right to construct dams over the Helmand River. Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran have a long history of ...

The Qosh Tepa canal issue essentially forces the Central Asian nations in the Amu Darya basin to make tradeoffs between regional instability and internal instability. With Taliban militants ...

Despite the Taliban’s limited technical capacity and resources, they have attempted to address some of Afghanistan’s environmental challenges. Projects like the Kush Tepa Canal, which aims to ...