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.

The first meeting within the framework of the Regional Dialogue on Cross-Border Cooperation in the Field of Management of Protected Natural Areas in Central Asia was held in Tashkent.

The capital of Uzbekistan has become the venue for the third meeting of the working group to discuss the Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in Central Asia.

COP26 Regional Ambassador for Europe, Central Asia, Turkey and Iran David Moran arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit, during which he took part in the Youth Climate Conference.

A pair of Nile crocodiles in the Ashgabat Zoo gave birth to a cub, the MIR 24 TV channel reports.

The White House Office of Science and Technology will be coordinating a 5-year research project to study ways to "darken" the Sun in an attempt to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis, CNBC reports.

According to the International Forum for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away in 2022 as many people do not recycle old phones, reports the BBC.

Moving is a difficult decision from both moral and physical point of view, due to the deterioration of the situation due to various factors. We've all seen people moving abroad for one reason or another in our news feeds. The search for a place for a "better life" can equally turn out to be both a success and an unenviable failure, which will add to the world statistics on the number of failed labor migrants.

The British Embassy in Turkmenistan is organizing the first climate eco-festival "Save the Planet Together" in Ashgabat with thematic quests and challenges, the diplomatic mission reports in a press release.