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		<title>Climate and Conquest: How Did Genghis Khan Rise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 18:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Krajick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img width="150" height="110" src="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mongol-empire-150x110.png" class="attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="mongol-empire" />Eight hundred years ago, relatively small armies of mounted warriors suddenly exploded outward from the cold, arid high-elevation grasslands of Mongolia and reshaped world geography, culture and history in ways that still resound today. How did they do it? ]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Water Conflict in Central Asia, and Solutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Apland Hitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CWC research team is analyzing a complicated issue in a highly conflicted part of the world, and trying to find a way forward.  They are taking an in-depth look at Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan), and the environmental, political and economic crisis building there.]]></description>
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		<title>Water and Energy Conflict in Central Asia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Siegfried</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water resources management in the Central Asia region faces formidable challenges. The hydrological regimes of the two major rivers in the region, the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, are complex and vulnerable to climate change. Water diversions to agricultural, industrial and domestic users have reduced flows in downstream regions, resulting in severe ecological damages. [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/08/18/water-and-energy-conflict-in-central-asia/">...</a>]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Asian Water Summit</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/04/28/central-asian-water-summit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 03:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Meghna Bhattacharjee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week five leaders of Central Asian nations are holding a summit to try and achieve a solution to their bitter dispute over water use in one of the driest regions of the world.  According to Reuters, the trouble over sharing water across borders has been bubbling to new heights with its growing scarcity.  Presidents [<a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/04/28/central-asian-water-summit/">...</a>]]]></description>
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