About 20 years ago, a plastic bottle, which is popularly known as a flask, delighted many of us with its consumer qualities and practicality. People of the older generation spent most of their lives in the world of glass containers, which must be treated carefully, for fear of...

In recent decades, climatologists and economists raise the alarm over the negative impact on human life of dust storms and hurricanes. Of course, concerns about harm to health and economic damage are quite fair and justified. However, the nature, full of mysteries, has enclosed a...

The potential for the development of solar energy in the tropical savanna Sahel is enormous, according to the UN. The energy produced from solar radiation in this region of the African continent is enough to provide up to 70% of the world's electricity needs. The Sahel, trans

The damage from sand and dust storms is not only measured in budget losses, but also in deteriorating human health and stumbling economic development, that is particularly tangible in low-income countries. However, cooperation and exchange of information will help to minimize ris...

Tajikistan has put up for sale the water of the picturesque mountain lake of Sarez, located in the Murgab district of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region. The length of the lake is about 70 kilometers, the maximum depth is about 500 meters, the water level is about 3255 meters

Altyn ASHYROVA

The import substitution program by local analogues is a significant contribution of Turkmenistan to the environmental protection. The establishment of production of domestic LED-lamps, which have already become a global “green” trend, became the next important st...

Turkmenistan's efforts to increase forest resources were highlighted during the first Bonn Challenge Regional Ministerial Roundtable for the Caucasus and Central Asia, hosted recently by Astana. -There have been sustained efforts to preserve Tugai forests along major rivers i...

In one of the remote corners of Kyrgyzstan, a population of the rarest wild progenitor of the modern pear - the Bukhara pear – has been discovered. About a hundred mature trees growing in the Bazar-Korgon district offer hope that these representatives of the unique flora of Centr...

Ayna BERDYEVA

On June 28, in Ashgabat, the first pilot seminar “Climate Box” for schoolteachers of the country, organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) jointly with the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, began its work. Within the framework of the se...

Altyn ASHYROVA

At present, ecology and entrepreneurship are difficult to separate. In all spheres of the economy, most business giants have long established funds in support of the environment and gradually reorient their business to use “green” technologies. So, the McDonald’s...