Eco-world

2020 - International Year of Plant Health
02.01.2020
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has officially announced 2020 as the United Nations’ International year of Plant Health (IYPH), which aims to draw the world's attention to how plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment and accelerate eco...

10 weird moments in Earth’s behavior in 2019
01.01.2020
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In a Solar system of fiery, poisonous hellish landscapes, icy celestial bodies, and ballooning orbs of gas, Earth is the only planet inhabited by intelligent, oxygen-breathing life forms. And at the same time, we live on a very strange planet and its eccentricities make themselve...

Feathered traveler returned home
29.12.2019
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The majestic winged predator, which was in the last migration away from his native Arabian Peninsula for four years, returned home to Abu Dhabi, flying for three and a half migration the distance equivalent of the earth’s circumference - twice. The greater spotted eagle, unde...

Caspian countries extended sturgeon fishing ban
27.12.2019
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The third meeting of the Commission on conservation and rational use of water bioresources of the Caspian sea was held in Tehran. The gathering resulted in extension of the moratorium on industrial fishing of sturgeon species, Russian Federal Agency for fishing reports. The

Germany to launch new climate initiative for Central Asia and Afghanistan
23.12.2019
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Human-induced climate change is not only an environmental phenomenon, but also one of the main security threats of the 21st century. Rising sea levels, more frequent weather extremes and the growing risk of environmental disasters are increasingly depriving people all over the wo...

Crop yield and environmental stability - balance according to the Altyn Toprak formula
20.12.2019
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Individual entrepreneur Byashim Bekiyev of Turkmenistan, Director of Altyn Toprak (Golden Land) Company can be called a venturer. He likes to overcome difficulties and respond to challenges. It was a challenge of nature - the degradation and salinization of lands - that prompted ...

Turkmenistan puts the Aral Sea issue on ESCAP agenda
19.12.2019
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Turkmenistan has put on the agenda of the upcoming session of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to be held in May 2020 the issue of creating mechanisms to solve the problems of closed reservoirs in the region. It was announced at multilateral con...

From waste – to incomes, or rice husk – to manufacture!
19.12.2019
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Rice - one of the major foodstuffs in the world. In many countries a dish from rice represent a traditional cuisine. The pilaf is considered to be a principal part of solemn feasts. At the same time, very few people reflects that as a result of processing of rice grain into gr...

How to quickly grow figs - Turkmen scientists propose a biological method
18.12.2019
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The populations of Central Asia know well the taste of fig fruits. Ripe and sweet berries melt in your mouth, have a pleasant flavor and contain many useful vitamins and other substances. Fig fruits are used in folk medicine, and are recommended for the treatment of the cardio...

Turkmen NGOs initiate international water project
18.12.2019
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The combination of efforts of all water consumers based on national and international experience will be the main goal of a series of information seminars and visits initiated by the public association “Yashyl Shokhle” and the public association “Unanch-Vepa” together with their ...