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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...

New Aarhus Centre in Zenica

New Aarhus Centre in Zenica

In January 2014, our project partner NGO, Eko-forum, opened the Aarhus Consultation Centre in the frequently visited centre-town of Zenica.

People chose it as the second most beautiful tree-lined avenue in the Czech Republic, now the trees have been felled

People chose it as the second most beautiful tree-lined avenue in the Czech Republic, now the trees have been felled

The Priessnitz colonnade won the imaginary silver medal in the survey Tree-lined Avenue of the year 2013, now a part of it is being felled. In place of the tens of felled trees,...

Czechs help in central Bosnia: local peoples´ health threatened by outdated industry and reckless corporations

Czechs help in central Bosnia: local peoples´ health threatened by outdated industry and reckless corporations

Two distant cities share the same story: the transnational corporation Mittal Steel bought the local steel plant, increased production but "forgot" to invest into environment...