Over $4 million may be allocated to Kazakhstan's climate projects
Kazakhstan's International Green Technologies and Investment Projects Center (IGTIC) is advancing climate finance—from livestock methane reduction to forest-climate projects.
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Wedding of the Glaciers" — How the People of Pakistan Create Water Where There Is No More
In Pakistan's highlands, a centuries-old practice is being revived: artificial glacier growing where natural ones are rapidly retreating.
Salinity of the Sea of Azov has reached a historic maximum
One of the planet's freshest seas is rapidly losing that distinction.
Global city greening ranking shows that street trees, not parks, are what matter
MIT researchers compared world cities not by green space on a map, but by how many trees a person actually sees while walking down the street.
El Niño stokes underground peat fires in Indonesia, reminiscent of the 2015 disaster
Indonesia sees a sharp rise in hazardous peat fires as the El Niño phenomenon intensifies.
Sheep's wool tested as a substitute for synthetics in glacier protection.
This summer, Swiss glacier tests used plain sheep wool—not synthetic material—as a cover to slow ice melt.
Kyrgyzstan has lost 90% of its forest cover in 50 years
A mountainous country, where forests held slopes against erosion and softened floods for centuries, lost nearly all its tree cover in just fifty years.