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2023 Environmental Protection Investment: 67 billion euros

Eurostat estimates that in 2023, EU countries invested about 67 billion euros into assets essential to provide environmental protection services. These services included wastewater treatment plants, vehicles to transport waste, acquisitions of...

Europe’s Bathing Waters Remain Safe

As you prepare for warm summer days ahead, you will be happy to learn that the vast majority - 85.4 per cent - of bathing water sites in Europe met the EU's...

Europe’s Bathing Waters Remain Safe

As you prepare for warm summer days ahead, you will be happy to learn that the vast majority - 85.4 4 per cent - of bathing water sites in Europe met the...

Which Animals Are Threatened with Extinction by 2030?

If I remember correctly, 10 a.m. was reserved for watching the series Survival, and every episode of this iconic wildlife show delighted me equally. For a long time, I was convinced that...

Serbia has Used up All its Natural Resources for This Year

As of  May 23rd, Serbia had used up its natural resources reserves for this year, which means that from today on, we are “living on borrowed resources.” This is the assessment of the...

New Agrisolar Digital Map Presents over 200 Projects across Europe

SolarPower Europe has launched a new digital map highlighting more than 200 agrisolar projects across Europe that exceed a combined capacity of 2.8 GW, including both pilot and commercial projects. Agrisolar, referring to...

134 million USD initiative aims to eliminate mercury-containing medical devices

The Governments of Albania, Burkina Faso, India, Montenegro and Uganda have united to combat chemical pollution, launching a 134-million dollars project to eliminate the use of mercury in medical devices. Used in health-care...

How Can the Collision of Salt and Fresh Water Create Electricity?

Estuaries are places where freshwater river and saltwater marine ecosystems meet. They are important for biodiversity, as they are home to many species of plants and animals that have adapted to the...

What Happens to Oases in Times of Climate Change?

The Sahara, the largest desert on the planet, is about the same area as the continental United States and stretches across several countries, including Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Mali, Niger, and...

In Europe’s Wild Carpathian Mountains, Prospect of Drought Rises

Stretching across seven Central and Eastern European countries, the Carpathian mountain range is home to some of the continent’s largest intact forests. It boasts nearly 4,000 plant species, as well as large...

It’s not all so Colourless – How is North Korea Fighting Climate Change

Time in North Korea seems to stand still. At least that's how it seems to the rest of the world, which cannot come to terms with the fact that in the 21st...

Air Pollution: Parliament Adopts Revised Law to Improve Air Quality

Parliament on Wednesday adopted a provisional political agreement with EU countries on new measures to improve air quality in the EU so it is no longer harmful to human health, natural ecosystems...

Global Warming – Tundras Threatening to Release Stored CO2?

Tundras are cold regions of the world, biomes with short vegetation, lower trees, and extremely low temperatures, which cover large parts of northern Russia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, and the coast of Greenland. They...

Wealthy Countries Have Learned Their Lesson – They Are Trying to Restore Their Estuaries

People have always inhabited the banks of rivers that are vital to our existence, but it seems that human intervention in the last three decades is slowly taking its toll. Experts from Inha...

Up to 11 Million Tons of Plastic at the Bottom of the Ocean

People are primarily concerned about the pollution of the sea by visible plastic floating on the surface of the water, but what should worry us, even more, is the sunken plastic waste...

Eight ways to overcome the waste pollution crisis

Humanity generates between 2.1 billion and 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste a year. When improperly managed, much of that refuse—from food and plastics to electronics and textiles — emits greenhouse gases...

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