A baby giraffe without spots was born in an American zoo
A new superstar has appeared in one of the zoos in Tennessee, USA. It doesn't have a name yet, but it has already made a splash among its herd – a giraffe without spots.
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Unusual mushrooms called "bloody teeth" were found in the Leningrad region
Unusual mushrooms that are rarely found in nature have been discovered in the Nizhne-Svirsky State Reserve of the Leningrad Region of Russia. One of them is a "bloody tooth", or Hydnellum peckii, which secretes a red liquid similar to blood.
Trees in Bishkek will receive a "medical card" and will be entered in the digital register
Each tree in Bishkek will have a kind of "medical card" - the mayor's office of the Kyrgyz capital and the public foundation "Archa" for the first time launched a project of electronic inventory of green spaces of the city. The register will include data on the number, geolocation, types, irrigation and condition of certain trees, reports vesti.kg.
In the US, CO2 from the air will be captured, sent to storage for concrete production
The US Department of Energy will allocate $ 1.2 billion to expand direct air capture (DAC) projects to clean it from carbon dioxide, writes Reuters.
UN completes pumping of 1.1 million barrels of oil from damaged tanker in Red Sea
The United Nations successfully completed the transfer of oil from the FSO Safer supertanker off the Red Sea coast in Yemen, averting the immediate threat of a major spill.
Today people have exhausted the annual resources of the Earth
In 2023, people have exhausted the conditional supply of renewable natural resources by Wednesday, August 2, the American environmental organization Global Ecological Footprint Network, GFN, reported. DW writes about this.
In Tajikistan, a "fence" of Saxaul will be erected to prevent dust storms
In order to prevent dust drifts in the south of Tajikistan, the largest saxaul plantation is being divided into more than 300 hectares.
A plant was found in Turkmenistan, which was considered to have disappeared on the territory of the country
In the south-west of Turkmenistan, after 20 years of searching, a plant species that was previously considered to have fallen out of the flora of Turkmenistan was found — wild German medlar. She was found in a remote mountainous area.
Turkmen biologists have recorded a new species of birds on the territory of Koytendag
The ecologist of the Nature Protection Society of Turkmenistan, Hojamyrat Hojamyradov, was able to photograph a bird that had not previously been found on the territory of Turkmenistan on the territory of the Koytendag State Nature Reserve.
Turkmenistan and FAO improve efficiency of land use in the country
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, experts in the field of environmental protection, finance, economics, statistics and other areas discussed with experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) the implementation of projects on rational land and water use.
The UN has launched a complex operation to pump oil from an abandoned ship in the Red Sea
The UN has launched an operation to defuse what may be "the world's largest time bomb." This was stated by the Secretary General of the organization, reporting on Tuesday that complex maritime rescue operations have begun in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen to transfer a million barrels of oil from the supertanker FSO Safer to another vessel.
A new garbage firing field will make Tashkent free of trash
Its construction is planned to be completed in November. The first technological firing field of household waste will appear in the Tashkent region. Pipes for pumping landfill gas and subsequent electricity production will be installed on its territory, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of Uzbekistan reports.
The polyclinic in the Lebap region became the first medical institution in Turkmenistan powered by solar energy
A new pilot solar energy system was installed in the polyclinic of the village of Pelvert in the Halach district of the Lebap region. The district institution of primary health care has become the first department in the country to be equipped with solar panels that supply electricity. The program was implemented within the framework of an innovative UNICEF project implemented jointly with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan.
Pakistan, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan intend to build Trans-Afghan Railway
Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan are aiming at the construction of the Trans-Afghan railway. The relevant document was signed following the meeting of the working group of the three countries.
Tajikistan to ban import and use of thin plastic bags
From January 1, 2025, Tajikistan will ban the import and use of bags made of ethylene polymers with a thickness of up to 15 microns. This is reported by the agency "Khovar" with reference to the representative of the Committee for Environmental Protection of Tajikistan.
