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Fossil Fuels Have Economically and Environmentally Friendly Alternatives – Heat Pumps
Winter came but even those who do not use coal, oil or gas for heating needn’t worry.According to the Institute for Energy Research, demand for fossil fuels, and especially gas, has skyrocketed...
More Than Twenty Thousand Tonnes of Tyres Were Recycled in the First Half of 2019
In a dozen tyre treatment plants in our country, tyres are collected through a collection network organised by recyclers. This network includes its collecti-on system, as well as individuals and legal entity ...
Toward New Technologies and Investments
During the bygone summer, the team of Energy Portal visited the city of Pirot, the administrative centre of the district after which it got the name. Pirot district, which also includes municipalities...
Polluting Our Soils Is Polluting Our Future
Soil is a finite resource, meaning its loss and degradation is not recoverable within a human lifespan. Soils affect the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, our...
All Set for Entering New Markets
In an old wine cellar, in the middle of rolling vineyards at the bottom of the massif of Stara Planina, two brothers were thinking on how to make a course of making...
Japan Will Have to Dump Radioactive Water into Pacific, Minister Says
The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister has said...
Extreme Water Stress Affects a Quarter of the World’s Population, Say Experts
A quarter of the world’s population across 17 countries are living in regions of extremely high water stress, a measure of the level of competition over water resources, a new report reveals.Experts...
Indonesia Will Move its Capital from Fast-Sinking Jakarta
Indonesia's president elect announced plans this week to move the country's capital away from Jakarta, reportedly the fastest sinking city in the world.A 2018 report said that Jakarta, located on the island...
Compensation for Conservation: Water Markets Are Economists’ Answer to Scarcity
As cites grow and put more pressure on water sources, scarcity is an increasingly important issue. More than two thirds of the world’s population experience a water shortage every year. Just because...
World Produced 44m Tonnes of E-Waste in 2017
More than 44 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) was produced globally in 2017, with a majority being sent to landfill.That’s more than six kilograms for every person on the...
A Country with the Best Attitude Towards the Natural Environment
With its unspoilt nature, clean lakes and rivers, Switzerland has had a healthy advantage for reaching the highest position in a category concerning ecology. What nature has unselfishly given to this country,...
Project in the Making: “Cadastre of Mining Waste”
A total of 250 abandoned mining waste sites in the Republic of Serbia were monitored as part of the project Cadastre of Mining Waste of the Republic of Serbia, carried out by...
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter
Last week, mainstream media outlets gave minimal attention to the news that the U.S. Naval station in Virginia Beach had spilled an estimated 94,000 gallons of jet fuel into a nearby waterway,...
The Impact of Architecture on the Environment
In 1987, the World Commission on the Environment and Development defined sustainability as a process of meeting the present needs without compromising future generations and their needs. This definition can be expounded...
Greek Wildfires: Dry Winter and Strong Winds Led to Tinderbox Conditions
An unusually dry winter, with less than average rainfall interspersed with localised flooding in some areas, is emerging as a major contributing factor to the wildfires that are ravaging the mainland of...
Could Swapping Rice for Other Grains Help Solve India’s Water Crisis?
A study published in Science Advances Wednesday offers a potential solution to India's growing nutritional and water needs: replace rice with less thirsty, more nutrititious cereals.The study found that by replacing the...
