“Gardening or cleaning pay 150 manat ($88), at most. It is not enough to live on and cover the the cost of medicine. I become more pessimistic every time I face yet another failure.”

The hobby of raising birds is a famous pastime in Azerbaijan, especially on the rooftops of Baku.

Azerbaijan’s forests are facing three major threats: clear-cutting, selective cutting and forest fires.

The start of crop farming has alarmed environmentalists, who fear the crop farms will destroy the land and force the gazelles to leave.

Azerbaijan has the highest infant mortality rate in Europe, due in part to a lack of sex education for girls, according to health experts.

Seven women in a close-knit Baku neighborhood share a friendship that spans six decades and has shaped the lives of generations.

Jangayib is not the only village that has been all but abandoned in Azerbaijan. There are nine villages with fewer than 10 residents. As many as 20 villages have been completely abandoned in the country.

Years after a controversial legal reform, Azerbaijani villages are paying the price.

Rafail Agayev plants trees and flowers as a personal mission to use gardening to improve the climate.