The transition to the use of renewable energy sources and the reduction of methane emissions into the atmosphere have become the key topics of the joint scientific and practical conference of Turkmenistan and the European Union that has been opened in Ashgabat, ORIENT correspondent reports.

Breeders, with the assistance of specialists from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment, have developed a new sort of fine-fiber cotton, yielding more than 50 quintals of cotton per hectare. The bred sort was named Yoloten-54, according to the country's state media.

The President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to create a State Scientific Institute for the study of the Caspian Sea, as well as to organize a regular survey of the water area and coast to identify the facts of the mass death of seals and fish, Vlast.kz reports.

Constantly increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and accumulated heat can lead to the fact that the last 8 years may become the hottest in the history of weather observations.

Rocky Cappadocia has one of the most unusual natural landscapes in the world. In this region of Turkey, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, the natural environment pleases the eye with aesthetic grace.

In most major cities of the world, coniferous trees are rarely seen. But not in Ashgabat. There are fir trees literally at every step. How did they deserve such popularity and how do they get along with their leafy brethren?

The State Committee of Water Management of Turkmenistan received the first batch of Komatsu bulldozers within the framework of the contract with the Japanese Itochu Corporation, the information program "Watan" of the Turkmen State Television and Radio Station reported.

The Kazakh city of Almaty hosted these days the delegations of the countries of Central Asia and South Korea, who gathered in Kazakhstan to participate in the meeting of the Asian Forest Cooperation Organization. The initiator of the forum was the Korean Forest Service, which organized the conference within the framework of the Memorandum on Cooperation in the Forest Industry signed by the countries in October 2013, Korean information sources write.

The European Parliament and the EU member states have reached a preliminary agreement on the adoption of a law that will completely ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2035, according to the website of the European Parliament.

At the initiative of the Nature Protection Society of Turkmenistan and the UNDP, more than 90 tons of plastic waste were sorted and processed in Ashgabat during the two stages of the pilot project, the UNDP Permanent Representative in the country Narine Sahakyan said in an interview with the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.