Xinhua Wu An incense burner from Jirzankal Cemetery, in the Pamir Mountains of western China. 2,500 years ago, people would burn cannabis leaves over hot stones to release psychoactive smoke.

Around the world, approximately 147 million people use cannabis.For many of them, the goal is to feel the effects of the plant’s psychoactive compound, ∆-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, better known ...

1 The Korumdu pasture, 4,250 m above sea level, in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan. An extended family, 15 people including children, spend a couple of months here catering to yaks and foreign ...

Pamiris live in areas throughout the Pamir Mountains. For most of their history ... countries towards Tajikistan to crush domestic opposition, keep the country’s people impoverished, while his family ...

In Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains, ... Only recently they gave internet to the banks so that people can withdraw money,” a 43-year-old man from Khorog, who requested anonymity, ...

A helicopter carrying climbers in Tajikistan crash-landed in the Central Asian nation's mountains, killing five of the 18 people on board, a Tajik official said Monday.

The owner of our guesthouse in Khorog, Tajikistan, was clear. “They are Tajiks, we are Pamiri. We are not the same people. Our language is different, our culture is different, our religion is ...

The temperature is rising faster in Tajikistan’s Pamir Mountains (elevation 25,095 feet) than the global average. These are the stories of the people living through our coming climate crisis, today.

According to the Tajik government, eight people were killed. Local sources reported that 40 Rushan locals were killed and around 120 were taken “hostage” by the security forces.

In GBAO, people have learned to decipher the geopolitical gales sweeping over the Pamir Mountains. The Panj River embodied the frontier during the Soviet-Afghan War and was a stronghold for the ...

Peak Ibn Sina aka Peak Lenin (23,406 feet) in the Pamir Mountains, often referred to as the "Roof of the World", will be the first objective of this illustrious project. Speaking about the upcoming ...