Development Aid Is Both Inspiration and Commitment

Development Aid Is Both Inspiration and Commitment

The Arnika Association became a new observer of the FoRS platform, created by the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation, after carrying out a number of projects of toxic...

Moravian-Silesian Region Gets Inspired  on to How to Protect Tree-Lined Avenues and Use them in the Region’s Development

Moravian-Silesian Region Gets Inspired on to How to Protect Tree-Lined Avenues and Use them in the Region’s Development

"How can be preserved nice tree-lined avenues along our roads be preserved and how can the safety of public traffic be ensured at the same time?" is the question which...

Less pollution and more rights for people – The objectives of new project in Kazakhstan

Less pollution and more rights for people – The objectives of new project in Kazakhstan

Heated debates about the extent to which the people will be able to participate in deciding on the authorisation of buildings and projects that affect their quality of life are...

Representatives of Radkov will work closely with NGOs to save a unique avenue

Representatives of Radkov will work closely with NGOs to save a unique avenue

The mayor of Radkov, Petr Dubový, and NGOs Arnika and civic association Radkov had met and agreed to work together to save a local avenue. The concrete proposed steps to save the...

EU-Funded Study Finds High Lead Levels in Paints in Seven Asian Countries: Children Ages 0-6 Risk Permanent and Lifelong Damage

EU-Funded Study Finds High Lead Levels in Paints in Seven Asian Countries: Children Ages 0-6 Risk Permanent and Lifelong Damage

The majority of household paints analyzed in seven Asian countries contain unsafe levels of lead; would not meet regulatory standards established in most highly industrialized...

Invest the money you saved in care of trees lining roads, hears Road and Motorway Directorate

Invest the money you saved in care of trees lining roads, hears Road and Motorway Directorate

Another 18,875 trees have disappeared in 2012 from the sides of the second- and third-class roads. The reason given is usually a bad condition of the trees or the necessity to...

Mercury Releases May Be Reduced by Advanced Technologies. A List of Them Will Be Made by Experts from All Over the World

Mercury Releases May Be Reduced by Advanced Technologies. A List of Them Will Be Made by Experts from All Over the World

A team of about forty experts on toxic mercury pollution started to work on guidelines which should ensure that this heavy metal be not released into the environment. The task of...

Selection of international news - 4

Selection of international news - 4

Pesticides may be more dangerous than testing reveals, study finds A team of French scientists has concluded that studies focused solely on the active ingredients of commercially...

Small grants provided by the European Union to help local communities in Kazakhstan to solve environmental problems

Small grants provided by the European Union to help local communities in Kazakhstan to solve environmental problems

Dust from abandoned uranium mines tailings, illegal waste dumps, poisoning of river Irtysh by heavy metals, contamination of lake Balkhash and severe air pollution. These are...

Czech Experts Are Trying to Find out How Much Air Pollution Threatens Inhabitants of Kazakhstan

Czech Experts Are Trying to Find out How Much Air Pollution Threatens Inhabitants of Kazakhstan

Looking like UFOs, they are passive air samplers for determination of toxic substance presence in the air. This may be a brief description of apparatuses that will be installed...

Toxic pollution of Bosnia will be solved with the help of Czech experts

Toxic pollution of Bosnia will be solved with the help of Czech experts

The list of countries, where Arnika organization helps, increased by another item. Bosnia and Herzegovina. was most recently added. It is another country of former Eastern Block...