Oleg Vinokurov Noisy flocks of pink starlings, flown from India, can be seen in the crowns of the trees of the city parks in Ashgabat. Their cheerful hubbub says of the imminent arrival of the summer heat and promises a threat to the numerous insect pests that starlings eat. T

In the near future, FAO will launch a new programme in Central Asia on sustainable forest development, forest protection and natural resource management. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will be the key beneficiaries of the project t...

Akmyrat Yylkybaev

A regional training, aimed at training the core specialists in integrated water resources management (IWRM) and introducing a basin approach (BP) into their work, is held on April 24-25 in the capital of Uzbekistan. These types of management are recognized

The British designer, the daughter of the soloist of the famous rock band "The Beatles" Paul McCartney - Stella McCartney called for the creation of designer clothes, the production of which will not cause any harm to the environment and form a "pure" fashion industry. She is

Muhtar ALIYEV

Water, until recently the simplest, “elementary” substance, in recent years, as it is being thoroughly studied, becomes more and more mysterious and “miraculous”. As of today, about forty kinds of water, which differ from each other in physical and chemical pro...

Pakistan International Airlines, biggest national carries, joins the campaign on saving the markhor, scanty Central Asian animal under the threat of extinction. The carrier have decided to put the picture of the mountain goat, which is a national symbol, on its fleet of aircra...

The Shanghai architects plan to construct a building that looks like one of the Seven Wonders of the World - Hanging Gardens of Semiramis. As the media reported, the work has already begun. Architects also call this project "One Thousand Trees". The building will have about a ...

Glass processing in Western markets is an expensive and not always profitable enterprise. As an alternative to the processing of glass products, environmentalists suggest making them into ... sand. It sounds strange: sand made of glass made from sand ... But this method has be

Widely spread agricultural waste such as livestock manure may be well turn into a cheap and environmentally friendly source of cellulose raw materials for the industry. Innovative technology of processing organic waste into cellulose was presented at a recent forum of the America...

Oleg Vinokurov

Despite the neighboring waterless Karakum, the mountain range of Kopetdag is a real oasis. There are many springs here, a mild summer, and the meadows flourish even in the hottest months. To find out how mountains accumulate precious moisture, one must rise on t