The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest landlocked body of water, is drying up at an alarming rate. From destroyed buildings to the disappearance of animal habitats, scientists say the Caspian’s condition is approaching critical. The current decline in the Caspian Sea’s water level began in the 1990s and, according to
Photo: Syed Mahamudur Rahman/NurPhoto via Getty Images Moscow, May 30. INTERFAX.RU – A roundtable discussion on “The Water Problem: A Challenge to Global and Regional Security” was held as part of the First International Security Forum in Moscow. Our political observer, Vyacheslav Terekhov, reports. The planet is facing water bankruptcy.
Global emissions are still growing – but very unevenly. Emissions Growth Rankings: Which Country Leads in Accelerating Carbon Footprints? / © Visual Capitalist Over the past decade, the most rapid growth has occurred in rapidly industrializing economies. Vietnam more than doubled its emissions between 2014 and 2024, while Indonesia
QAZAQ GREEN. Russian renewable energy company Hevel is preparing to build the largest solar power plant in Amur region, with an installed capacity of 600 MW, RuNews24 reported. According to the company’s chairman Igor Shakhray, site preparation is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2026, while full-scale construction is expected
QAZAQ GREEN. The volume of renewable energy capacity commissioned in Russia totaled 677.58 MW in 2025. In 2024, 445.4 MW of such generation was built, according to the Russian renewable energy market review prepared by the Renewable Energy Development Association. Most of the facilities were launched in the Q4 of
Scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have decided to develop a modern analogue of the Soviet project to “divert” Siberian rivers to Central Asia, RBK reports. Viktor Danilov-Danilyan, Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Water Problems, told the publication that the RAS Department of Earth Sciences (DES)
The Interregional Group of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD IG) is holding a two-day meeting on 2–3 October 2025 at the UN House in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The IG serves as a key platform for cooperation and joint action on combating desertification, land degradation, and drought in the
The 36th meeting of the Interstate Council on Hydrometeorology of the CIS countries was held in Tashkent on September 25-26. The Council, which has been in operation since 1992, is a key organization for cooperation and data exchange among national hydrometeorological services. The Secretariat and chairmanship of the Council regularly rotate between
Photo: Uzbekcosmos Agency Drought monitoring system using space technology to appear in Central Asia A regional drought monitoring system using satellite technology will be established in Central Asia. The project is being implemented by the Uzbekcosmos agency with the support of ESCAP. Its goal is to increase the resilience of
International Caspian Day is an environmental date celebrated on August 12 by the five Caspian states: Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan. On this day in 2006, the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Caspian Sea and the Environment from Pollution came into force. The document was signed on
