Speaking at a ministerial meeting on climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated his call for countries and private businesses to develop clear and credible plans to achieve zero emissions and carbon neutrality. “We need robust, coherent plans to reduce emiss...

According to last climatic observations, from 2014, the past winter has appeared the coldest. Huge temperature contrasts were fixed in different points of the planet. Sometimes it was hot and sometimes it was cold in Central Asia. In Turkmenistan in the middle of February air ...

From the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and the public have been interested in the question of the origin of the unprecedented threat that has hit humanity. Various versions of the appearance of COVID-19 were expressed in state and social media, a...

Turkmenistan’s forest program is as effective as simple. Every year, at least three million tree seedlings are planted in the country. This is minimum. And in 2021, Turkmenistan will plant 30 million saplings of trees and grapes – in honor of the 30th anniversary of the country’s...

Today, with the assistance of the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Georgia, it was held an online meeting of Turkmen and Georgian specialists on the study of the medicinal properties of licorice root. On the Turkmen side, the meeting was participated by representatives of the Turkme...

The trees planting campaign, organized by the Nature Conservation Society of Turkmenistan in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), took place within three schools in Ashgabat. Engaged in the implementation of the joint project Sustainable Cities aimed at...

In the Caspian Sea’s waters – in its Turkmen part – there is an ancient Ogurchinsky island, which is located 30 km on the south-west trip of the Hazar (Cheleken) Peninsula. From a bird\’'s eye view, the shape of the desert island resembles a cucumber, but the name of the area com...

Issues of preparation of the Fourth national report of Turkmenistan on climate change and the Biennial report of the country within the Framework Convention on Climate Change, (UN FCCC) were discussed during the last working meeting at national level. These strategic documents ar...

Five years ago, in March, 2016, the parliament of Turkmenistan, having cancelled the law which had a little "lagged behind" at that point in time from vital realities «On protection of the atmospheric air», one of the first in the Central Asian region, adopted its revised version...

Within the framework of the project of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan “Sustainable Cities in Turkmenistan: Integrated Green Urban Development in Ashgabat and Awaza”, an online seminar wa...