The year 2023 has been confirmed as the warmest on record, driven by human-caused climate change and boosted by the natural El Niño weather event. Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels, the EU’s climate service says. Almost every day since July has …
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Researchers found hundreds of thousands of plastic particles in one-liter bottles of water sold in the US, 90% of them small enough to enter the human bloodstream. A typical one-liter (33-ounce) bottle of water contains some 240,000 plastic fragments on average, according to a new study. Many of those fragments have historically gone undetected, the …
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DUSHANBE, 05.01.2024 (NIAT Khovar) – This year, the 35th meeting of the Interstate Council on Hydrometeorology of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS ICH) will be held in Dushanbe. This decision was approved during the 34th meeting of the CIS ICH, which took place in Baku (Azerbaijan). Ten CIS member states will take part in the …
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DUSHANBE, 08.01.2024 (NIAT Khovar) – Strengthening cooperation between Tajikistan and Germany in the field of environmental protection was discussed in Dushanbe at the meeting of the Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Protection Bahodur Sheralizoda and the German Ambassador to Tajikistan York Schuegraf. The meeting also focused on issues related to biodiversity and climate change. Sheralizoda …
Unified Region with a Unified Approach The climate summit in Dubai that drew global attention has become a new milestone in the world community’s opposition to global climate challenges, including for the countries of Central Asia. For the CA states, UNFCCC COP28 started with a presentation of the most important document – the Regional Strategy …
On December 30, 2023, the Chairman of the Committee for Environmental Protection under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, Sheralizoda Bakhodur Ahmadjon, with the participation of the management of the Agency for Hydrometeorology, visited the agrometeorological station “Gissar” and got acquainted with the working conditions of workers, the work of the station, preparation for …
The UNESCO Department at the Turkmen State Pedagogical Institute named after Seyitnazar Seydi organized an educational and methodological online conference “Quality environmental education and the development of environmental culture of the young generation is the most important task of our time.” The conference, which took place on December 25, was attended by teaching staff and …
The Ministry of Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on November 11, 2023, agreeing to expand cooperation in the field of sustainable management of natural resources, protection of biodiversity and other related issues. “As we remain committed to conserving biodiversity, our national focus …
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Thus, according to The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Utilities, in 2021, among 90 countries in the world, the cheapest water is in Tajikistan ($0.1 per cubic meter of water) Kazakhstan is in third place as the cheapest in terms of water supply . The cost of a cubic meter of tap water …
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