Ahead of this week’s crucial biodiversity summit with participation of world leaders, the UN is calling on the global community to take decisive actions. “We don’t have time to wait. The loss of biodiversity, the loss of nature is unprecedented in human history,” said Elizabeth M...

Organizers of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo have announced that enough plastic has been collected to create eco-podiums for the award ceremony. In total, there were collected 24.5 tons of used plastic, including from the oceans, and about 400 thousand bottles of de...

Where it is possible to see a Khazarian elephant and whether it is an invention what in the territory of Turkmenistan those large mammals lived in the ancient time? In 1943 to the north from the depression of Hudaydag, 40 kilometres to the west of Balkanabat, the Turkmen elephant...

Employees of several government departments of Turkmenistan participated in the mini-forum of Small Basin Councils (SBC). The meeting was held in the format of an online conference. The agenda was devoted to the basin planning approach implemented in the pilot territories and com...

A team of researchers from the University of Queensland in Brisbane studied toxins produced by Australian stinging trees. Contact with a tree for a person is similar to a nettle burn, but since the composition of the juice secreted from a tree is completely different, the cons...

Within the limits of the joint project of the State Committee for Water Management of Turkmenistan and the Development Program of the United Nations the online seminar on water saving technologies in irrigated agriculture was organised. The project is financed by Global Environme...

Surely everyone has seen how pomegranate grows - a tree that loves warmth and ripens in warm regions by mid-autumn. This important royal fruit, used from plant roots to fruit seeds, is used in cooking, cosmetics, medicine, industry, etc. The history of the pomegranate goes back m...

On September 16, a working meeting was held in Ashgabat, timed to the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, and organized by the UN staff. The purpose of the event is to disseminate environmental information and raise awareness of the ozone layer protection. ...

The gas crater The Shine of Karakum, located in Turkmenistan, is included in the list of the most unusual places on Earth, according to the British newspaper Ex-press. Having offered its readers a “journey" through the pictures of tourist photog-raphers, the publication has put t...

Scientists from the UK and Germany have discovered that a natural antioxidant found in green tea, which is very popular in Turkmenistan, can restore the activity of antibiotic commonly used to treat infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is Epigallocatechin gallat...