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International Day of Actions for Rivers: Stopping subsidies for small hydropower plants is crucial for saving the last untouched European Rivers
23.3.2020 - PRAGUE / BANJA LUKA
On March 14th, the International Day of Actions for Rivers, the Coalition for Protection of the Rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina calls on the appropriate authorities to immediately suspend public incentives for the production of energy from small hydropower plants as stated in the Declaration on the Protection of the… -
Breakthrough in Armenian environmental activism: mining company acknowledges environmental impact, offers compensation
10.3.2020 - AKHTALA
One of the families who took part in last year's research of pollution in industrial areas of Armenia, conducted by Arnika and its partner organizations, are about to receive compensation for damages from a mining company AKHTALA CJSC. The Danielyan family lives near the Nahatak tailing dump in the Lori… -
‘Minamata‘ starring Johnny Depp draws attention to mercury pollution
25.2.2020 - BERLIN
On Friday, February 21, the movie ‘Minamata‘ starring Johnny Depp had a world premiere at the Berlinale film festival. The film, directed by Andrew Levitas, tells a story of American photographer Eugene Smith who documented the horrific health impact of industrial mercury pollution in the Japanese city of Minamata. The people… -
Step towards a toxics-free Europe: European Parliament rejected lead In recycled PVC
13.2.2020 - BRUSSELS
The European Parliament rejected a proposal from the European Commission which would enable recycling of lead-containing PVC for the next 15 years. MEPs agreed with consumers who spoke out to stop the recycling of hazardous lead waste into new PVC products. -
Environmental health groups celebrate the end to EU allowance for banned flame retardant chemicals to enter recycling streams & new products
24.1.2020 - GOTHENBURG/SWEDEN
The European Union (EU) has taken an important step towards cleaning up its recycling; it will no longer allow materials containing a class of toxic, globally banned flame retardants known as PBDEs to be recycled. Researchers had revealed that across Europe, alarming levels of toxic banned flame retardants and related… -
Declaration for the protection of Western Balkans Rivers demands the moratorium on construction of hydropower plants
17.12.2019 - SARAJEVO
A joint 'Declaration on the Protection of the Western Balkans Rivers' has been adopted by participants of an International River Conference and several other environmental groups from the Western Balkan and other European countries. The signatories demand a moratorium on the construction of hydropower plants until governments can ensure protection… -
Ukrainians got non-stop online access to air pollution data
9.12.2019 - KHARKOV / KRYVYI RIH / KRAMATORSK / ZAPORIZHIA
As a part of the international project Clear Air for Ukraine, the members of Ukrainian organisation Eco City, together with regional partners and with support from Czech NGO Arnika, presented the state-of-the-art public air monitoring stations “Oxygen”. The stations were installed in four industrial cities of Ukraine - Kharkiv, Kramatorsk,…
