Pictures from polluted cities of Ukraine won the Czech Press Photo
"This award-winning documentary has only been created by people from Arnika, and their determination and willingness to perform overall monitoring," said Stanislav Krupař, the...
Kruščica residents against ‘illegal HPPs’ gathered for a quiet protest in Travnik
The message of Thursday’s peaceful protest held by the people of Kruščica, a village in the Central Bosnia Canton, and the representatives of the Coalition for the Protection of...
Environmental organizations from Western Balkans against the construction of small hydropower plants on the Balkan rivers
Rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as other Balkan countries are threatened by a massive boom of small hydropower plants construction. Activists who struggle to preserve...
Danube gone dry as the water level hits record low
Two weeks ago an exceptionally low water level was measured in the capital of Hungary. For the first time since 1947 the level dropped below half a meter. According to...
Arnika's photos from Ukraine compete in the Czech Press Photo, you can also decide on the winner
Pictures of Stanislav Krupař from Mariupol show how local factories have become part of the natural environment for the people of Ukrainian industrial cities. Tens of thousands...
No more e-waste! Thailand against foreign garbage
The importing of over 400 kinds of scrap electronics into the country will no longer be allowed within the next six months. The Government has reacted to Thailand becoming ‘the...
We want to breathe! Citizens of Ukrainian cities demonstrate for lower industrial emissions
Thousands of people from Mariupol, Zaporozhye, and Kryvyi Rih joined a series of events labeled "I Want to Breathe" this Saturday. The locals went out into the streets demanding...
Faulty ‘waste recycling' harms Thai communities, expert presented
The Thai province of Samut Sakhon is highly contaminated with hazardous chemicals. At the international conference on halogenated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Poland,...
IPEN urged delegates of the Basel Convention meeting to set safe limits for toxic chemicals in waste
Jindřich Petrlík, Arnika's representative intervened at current Basel Convention's Open-ended Working Group meeting in Geneva on behalf of IPEN, a global network of more than 500...
International tools to counteract polluters in Armenia
In the presence of Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Yerevan, Petr Mikyska, and Arnika, together with local NGOs, discussed international tools to administer justice to...
EcoLur: Czech specialists studying the mining pollution in Alaverdi, Akhtala, and Shnogh
Czech specialists are studying to what extent the mining communities of Alaverdi, Shnogh, and Akhtala are polluted with heavy metals, and what kind of impact it will have on...
Who will bear responsibility for residents’ health in mining areas?
The intensive development of metal mining in Armenia is accompanied by health problems connected with environmental pollution. Over many years the residents living near mines and...
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