From 11 to 14 September 2025, researchers of the Research Centre for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia took part in research in the area of Lake Sarez and its upper reaches (Rushan and Murghab districts of GBAO) in a joint expedition with representatives of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan and the Main Department of Geology under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan with the support of the Aga Khan Habitat Agency.

  From August 29 to September 2, 2025, the Center's employees conducted a study and monitoring of the state of glaciers and glacial lakes in the Surkhob River basin. In the course of field research, aerial photography of the tongue part of the Said Nafisi glacier, where several small glacial lakes are located, was carried out using unmanned aerial vehicles. Glacial lakes in mountainous areas pose a serious danger.

  From July 26 to August 9, 2025, a joint scientific team from the Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Dushanbe) of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Institute of Botany, Physiology and Genetics of Plants and the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a comprehensive scientific expedition on the Pamir Plateau.

  On July 21, 2025, the official opening ceremony of the Tajikistan-China Joint Laboratory on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological Resources under the “One Belt – One Road” Initiative took place at the Research Center for Ecology and Environment of Central Asia (Dushanbe), under the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

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