In 2020, several agricultural complexes of Russia used a new method of growing vegetables without chemicals – predatory insects helped agrarians in it. They not only make environmentally friendly vegetables, but also deal with various pests. According to the Production Directo...

The Mu-Us Desert, which name means bad water in Mongolian, is located in China between the Yulin district of Shaanxi province and the Ordos city district. Formerly, endless sands dominated here, the soil was depleted, and vegetation covered the territory only by 1.8%. The dist...

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has launched an online journey through some of the world’s most iconic landscapes. The campaign is part of a global effort, led by the UNEP, to raise awareness about the threats to wild animals. A new interactive webpage allows net...

As part of the third day of the Central Asian Conference on Climate Change, the organizers of the forum made a presentation of the unique Central Asian Climate Information Platform (CACIP). Currently, one of the main ways of informing the population about environment and clim...

World food day which is marked on October 16, this year calls for global solidarity to help all groups of population to fight against COVID-19. The huge role here belongs to agro-ecology. The agro-ecology is an ecological approach to agriculture that is agriculture with low leve...

At Scotland’s easternmost headland, the old fishing port of Peterhead juts out into the North Sea. Located 24 kilometers offshore, there are five towering 174-meter-tall turbines, designed by Hywind Scotland, which generates enough electricity for more than 20,000 homes, and are ...

It seems, the great poet wrote these lines about autumn in Turkmenistan, which, after the sweltering summer heat, brings the long-awaited freshness, adding the new colors to the world around and filling it with the scent of autumn flowers. Autumn here is the best season a...

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its corals since 1995 due to warmer seas driven by climate change, a study has found. Scientists found all types of corals had suffered a decline across the world’s largest reef system. The steepest falls came after mass b...

Mosquitoes spread fatal diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever that kill at least half a million people each year via their bite. It is known that only females of dipteran parasites seek a blood meal. Blood is a source of more concentrated and beneficial nutrients s...

The «bowl of goitered gazelle» - is so poetically translated the Turkmen name of giant fennel «keyik okara». Its large leaves are indeed similar to a vessel and in them water after such infrequent rains in desert keeps well. One plant can keep in its "palms" almost two litres of ...