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A location in Zabul Province of Afghanistan. Felling has been made illegal all over Afghanistan. [12] [13] [14] According to NEPA, only about 1.5% of the country is forested. [15] Others have put the figure at 2.1% (or 1,350,000 ha). [16] Some steps have been taken in recent years to plant trees in the urban areas of the country.
In 2023, Afghanistan is estimated to have emitted 11 million tonnes of CO2, [9] or 44 million tonnes of greenhouse gas [10] which would be about one tonne per person. For rough comparison with other countries : India over two tonnes per person, [ 11 ] China and Germany around 10, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] USA and Russia around 20.
Afghanistan has the potential to produce over 222,000 MW of electricity by using solar panels. [2] [7] The use of solar power is steadily increasing throughout country. [20] [21] [5] [4] [22] [3] [23] Annual average solar insolation varies from 4 to 6.5 kWh/m 2 /day, with over 300 days of sunshine per year.
[12] The Caspian tiger used to occur along the upper reaches of Hari-Rud near Herat to the jungles in the lower reaches of the river until the early 1970s. [13] Uncertain is the historical presence of the Asiatic lion in the country, as locality records are not known. [11] It is thought to have been present in southwestern and southern ...
According to some sources, the canal is named after Qosh Tepa District in Afghanistan's Jowzjan Province. [10] The word "qosh" (Uzbek: qoʻsh) is a Turkic word meaning "a pair" or a "twin". [11] "Qoʻshtepa" means "twin" or "adjoining hills" and is a common Uzbek toponym. [12] Therefore, the canal's name translates to "Twin Hills Canal".
Open-air burn pit at Forward Operating Base Sharana, Paktika, Afghanistan, in 2013. The ongoing environmental impacts of war in Afghanistan, from the 1979 beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War to the 2021 United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan, adversely affect the health of Afghan civilians and American veterans, infrastructure, the labour force, and social structures.
Wildlife and nature programmer Love Nature has launched FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) service NatureTime. NatureTime will be available as a free streaming service in markets where the Love ...
Fifty-two investors interested in Afghanistan's 2,000 MW solar energy plan (April 16, 2019). Afghanistan launches EoIs ahead of 2-GW solar tender (Dec. 18, 2018). The Power of Nature: How Renewable Energy is Changing Lives in Afghanistan (UNDP, Sept. 13, 2017).