Education and Role of Foreign Languages

Air Pollution
Air pollution refers to the release of pollutants into the air—pollutants which are detrimental to human health and the planet as a whole. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), each year air pollution is responsible for nearly seven million deaths around the globe. Nine out of ten human beings currently breathe air that exceeds the WHO’s guideline limits for pollutants, with those living in low- and middle-income countries suffering the most. In the United States, the Clean Air Act, established in 1970, authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to safeguard public health by regulating the emissions of these harmful air pollutants.
Air pollution can be defined as the introduction of excessive quantities of substances, gases, particles or biological molecules into the earth’s atmosphere.There are many different indices to measure air pollution across countries, the most popular one being the air quality index in the U.S.
Air pollution may have negative impacts on humans in the form of allergies, diseases or even death.
Carbon dioxide
Although it is a natural component of the atmosphere and essential for plant life, carbon dioxide can be harmful to the environment in the sense that it is a greenhouse gas and thus contributes to global warming.

Sulfur oxides

Sulfur oxides, especially sulfur dioxide, is produced in various industrial processes like in the combustion of coal and petroleum, as well as in nature through volcanoes.

Nitrogen oxides

Nitrogen oxides, especially nitrogen dioxide, is produced in industrial processes like in high-temperature combustions as well as in natural processes like electric discharge in thunderstorms.
Sport in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan was once part of the Soviet Union, and did not compete in world sport under its own name until the 1990s.
Traditionally Uzbekistan fosters equestrians and wrestlers. They have this wrestling sport called “Kurash” which is an upright wrestling. Kurash refers to a number of folk wrestling styles that were practiced in Central Asia. The players are inside a big circle and uses towels to hold their opponents and their goal is to throw them off the feet. It is like Sumo wrestling but in this sport any size of man can join.
Today, football is now regarded as their most popular sport. The first International Club Cup for Uzbek Football was in 2011 when Nasaf won AFC Cup. Uzbekistan had two teams; one is FC Bunyodkor, the current champion, and the FC Pakhtakor Tashkent, who holds the most championships. Because of this, Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium with the capacity of 35,000 was built and is now mostly used for football matches.
Even before when Uzbekistan was still part of the Soviet Union they already play football and Berador Abduraimov who played 358 matches for FC Pakhtakor, represented the Soviet Union, was regarded to be the top goal scorer of the Soviet Top League in 1968. Today’s most popular football player of Uzbekistan is Serve Djeparov. He scored 34 goals in 96 matches when transferred to Pakhtakor Tashkent, won 6 Uzbek League and 6 Uzbek Cups from 2002-2007. He is now a midfielder of Seongnam FC
Uzbekistan first joined the Olympic Games as an independent state in 1994 and was a consistent participant ever since. Most of their gold medals came from either wrestling or boxing. Artur Taymazov has won a total of 1 silver (2000 Sydney) and 3 gold medals (2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London) from wrestling as is so far their best player as far as medals are concerned.