An International Student Team will explore the Czech Capital Water Management

Is the water management in Prague sustainable? How to guarantee the functional system of water usage and recycling in ever expanding city districts? How to assist with water...

The reconstruction of Prague railway stations is a great opportunity. Representatives must defend citizens’ interests, a study finds

The planned reconstruction of Masaryk’s railway station and of railway stations in Zizkov, Smichov and Bubny is a great opportunity. Grounds in question are so large that there...

EU Parliament must resist pressure to weaken Industrial Emissions Directive

EU Parliament must resist pressure to weaken Industrial Emissions Directive

Medical and environmental groups are alarmed by possible reductions in public health and environmental protection standards within the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), which...

Teaching aids containing hazardous phthalates - Arnika warning parents: Don't buy your children teaching aids containing PVC

High concentrations of phthalates (1) were found in some teaching aids sold on Czech market. „ It confirmed our concerns as increased levels of phthalates were registered in all...

New report found mercury in skin lightening creams

New report found mercury in skin lightening creams

Mercury was detected in products sent for testing from India, Kenya, and Mexico in research undertaken by international network of civil society organizations IPEN. In Mexico,...

Czechs and Armenians start to cooperate to reduce obsolete pesticides danger

Czechs and Armenians start to cooperate to reduce obsolete pesticides danger

The main goal of the join project between two ngos, one Czech and one Armenian, was to help the rural communities to implement sustainable agriculture and eliminate the danger of...

The inhabitants asked politicians to refuse skyscrapers in Pankrác

Over 800 inhabitants expressed their disagreement with construction of so-called Prague Manhattan in Prague's Pankrác plain. A petition with their signatures was handed over to...

Representatives refused to sell land in Pankrác

" The City Assembly of the Capital City of Prague on yesterday's meeting refused to sell land in the Pankrác plain to the company ECE. After a longer discussion, the...

Citizens' associations expressed essential observations to the project of shopping centre in Pankrác

Yesterday in the afternoon, two hundred fifty people met in the Small Hall of the Congress Centre, in order to discuss environmental impacts of the Shopping and Social Centre...

Greenpeace and Arnika: Spolana Should Safeguard and Clean Up Entire Polluted Site

The environmental organisations Arnika and Greenpeace sent today the new Czech Minister for the Environment Libor Ambrozek and the director of the Czech Inspectorate for the...

First International Elbe Swimming Day

Hamburg / Dresden / Praha, 8.07.02 : A few years ago, the Elbe river was the most polluted river in Europe. Since the reunification of Germany, hundreds of millions of euros have...

Eleven times higher levels of dioxins found in blood samples of former employees of chemical plant Spolana

Scientists found 11 times higher dioxins concentrations in blood samples of former employees of chemical plant Spolana Neratovice. Concentration of the most dangerous substance -...