Saudi Arabia completes construction of the world's largest green hydrogen plant The country whose economy was tied to oil and gas for decades just finished building what should become the world's largest clean hydrogen producer.
Shardara received more water than expected — Kazakhstan's water diplomacy worked As summer 2026 sets European river-shrinking records, Kazakhstan quietly but intensively pursues its own water diplomacy.
Romania has for the first time completely shut down its only nuclear power plant due to the Danube's shallowing. The Danube energy crisis has reached its logical limit. On August 13, 2026, both reactors at Romania's only nuclear plant, Cernavodă, were fully shut down.
Armenia chooses between the US, France, China, Russia and South Korea for a new nuclear power plant. While Kazakhstan has settled on a single partner for its future nuclear plant, Armenia chose the opposite strategy—holding parallel talks with five countries at once.
Kazakhstan implements 24 investment agreements in the energy sector totaling 3.8 GW Kazakhstan's energy system is set for a notable capacity boost through a mechanism already proven in practice.
Five Central Asian countries launched a program to restore the Amu Darya and Syr Darya basins. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan have joined the CAWLN program to restore watersheds of Central Asia's two major rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya.
In Georgia, artificial intelligence learns to recognize local livestock breeds. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization launched a project in Georgia that sounds technical but actually protects the genetic heritage of an entire nation.