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.

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.

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 order to prevent dust drifts in the south of Tajikistan, the largest saxaul plantation is being divided into more than 300 hectares.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.