In Tajikistan, Climate Migrants Flee Threat Of Fatal Landslides

Many retirees in Tajikistan look after their grandchildren, whose parents have left to earn money in Russia (Credit: AFP)

Peeling onions in her new home, Yodgoroy Makhmaliyeva recalled the terrifying moment four years ago when a landslide buried her family home in mountainous Tajikistan.

Heavy snow and rain, she said, sent a deluge of rocks, water and mud crashing into the house in the Central Asian country estimated to be among the most vulnerable to effects of climate change.