In Atyrau province, the first wind power plant in the region with a designed capacity of 52 megawatts is being built on the coast of the Caspian sea in Manash village. The new station of 36 windmills plans to provide up to 14% of electricity consumption in the region. Seven ge...

Snow leopards are considered one of the most famous mountain species in Central Asia. Nevertheless, the habitat of these majestic predators is under unprecedented pressure due to changing climatic conditions, as well as other related factors against the background of the general ...

The Environment Society of Oman (ESO) has discovered that several birds of prey, tagged in the framework of international ornithologist program, spent their summer time in Central Asia, reports Times of Oman. Two steppe eagles, tagged in January last year, during the summer ti

On January 9, the MODIS spectrometer with the Terra spacecraft captured a unique natural phenomenon in the photo in the Caspian Sea. White whirls formed on the shores of Turkmenistan, which the specialists of the American Aerospace Agency (NASA) called "milk whirlwinds." As su

Japanese scientist Akinori Ito invented a machine that is able to process plastic bags and plastic products into the substance from which they were originally created - oil. The received fuel can be used for heating houses, and after additional cleaning even in the form of automo

Leonid KIYASHKO, Ivanovo, Russian Federation

Be it a black-and-white photo, it would not have collected thousands of views. But the frame is colored and it shows that the place of barkhans, habitual for a camel, took snowdrifts. The picture itself is also clearly not in the de

About 50,000 homes in South Australia will be equipped with solar panels from Tesla, turning them into a giant power plant. The project will be implemented jointly with the government of the state using the resources of the Australian Renewable Energy Development Fund. The

Abnormally low temperatures are set in in the most of the territories of Asia. In the north of the Asian region of the continent, from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and from the Taimyr Peninsula to the Kazakhstan steppes, the temperature is below the norm by 15 degrees...

An unprecedented study combining data from all over the globe has shown that honey bees are the most important in the world unique species of pollinators, and a key factor contributing to ecosystem functioning. Recently, the first detailed report on the quantitative analysis of s

Arslan KEMALOV

By 2040, all airhops in Norway will be carried out by the electric plane. The Avinor – state operator of the airports of the country will be the first to exploit completely the electric air transport. The head of Avinor Dag Falk-Petersen is sure that electric ...