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Critical air pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina:  A result of chaotic permitting and low standards

Critical air pollution in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A result of chaotic permitting and low standards

Bosnia and Herzegovina is the country with the most polluted air in Europe (1). One of the reasons is ineffective system which regulates industrial facilities and allows for low...

Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina gain new guidebook for participation in decision making on environment

Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina gain new guidebook for participation in decision making on environment

Bosnia and Herzegovina has the most complicated legal system and the most confusing structure of the state administration in Europe (1). The majority of its citizens are not...

Heavy metals in water - serious pollution concentration found near industrial areas in Thailand

Heavy metals in water - serious pollution concentration found near industrial areas in Thailand

Environmentalists revealed that the industrial pollution has become more intensified in these two years. Sediments of water sources near the industrial areas contain high...

Negotiators in Geneva Favour Industry to Children's Health Protection

Negotiators in Geneva Favour Industry to Children's Health Protection

The current negotiations of the world government representatives concerning ban of two hazardous toxic substances have been very bitter. As proved by the recently published...

Recycling Contaminates Plastic Children’s Toys with Toxic Chemicals from Electronic Waste

Recycling Contaminates Plastic Children’s Toys with Toxic Chemicals from Electronic Waste

A new global survey finds that recycling plastics containing toxic flame retardant chemicals found in electronic waste results in contamination of the world's best-selling toy...

The project of non-governmental organizations enhanced environmental democracy in Kazakhstan and helped local communities defend their rights

The project of non-governmental organizations enhanced environmental democracy in Kazakhstan and helped local communities defend their rights

Thousands citizens of the Mangystau Region can feel an improvement in their environment thanks to a three year project of non-governmental organizations financed by the EU (1)....

Polluted environment in Kazakhstan seriously contaminates foodstuff and threatens human health

Polluted environment in Kazakhstan seriously contaminates foodstuff and threatens human health

Chicken eggs and camel milk are common components of the daily diet in Kazakhstan. They are also good indicators of possible pollution of the environment. That is why the...

Children’s Toys Contaminated with a Toxic Industrial Chemical that is Recommended for Global Prohibition

Children’s Toys Contaminated with a Toxic Industrial Chemical that is Recommended for Global Prohibition

A survey of children's products in 10 countries (1) including Czech Republic finds widespread contamination with an industrial chemical recommended for global prohibition. The...

Prague Sandpits Have Problems with Cadmium Contents. Luckily, Contents of Other Toxic Substances Are within Limits.

Prague Sandpits Have Problems with Cadmium Contents. Luckily, Contents of Other Toxic Substances Are within Limits.

Arnika's experts visited 9 playgrounds in 6 parts of the city of Prague in the past months, in order to take sand samples from sandpits, as well as from the whole playground...

Municipalities with the Lowest Waste Production Obtained Oscar

Municipalities with the Lowest Waste Production Obtained Oscar

The second year of the Waste Oscar competition has its winners. Which municipalities and towns produce the lowest annual amounts of waste per an inhabitant in the Czech Republic?...

Belarusian ecological activists jailed, “Let them go!” demands Arnika

Belarusian ecological activists jailed, “Let them go!” demands Arnika

Although the meeting took place quietly and with the correct permit, approximately fifty people were arrested without justification and brutally attacked on 15 March in Minsk,...

The Regional Authority Decided that the Company Quail Is Not Allowed to Transport Hazardous Fly Ash into Hůrka near Temelín

The Regional Authority Decided that the Company Quail Is Not Allowed to Transport Hazardous Fly Ash into Hůrka near Temelín

The company Quail s.r.o. is not allowed to accept for treatment fly ash from hazardous waste incinerators anymore. The fly ash probably contributed to contamination by toxic...