SAD
Historic out-of-court settlement: For pollution with "eternal chemicals" $450 million
This is just one in a huge series of proceedings that are being conducted against the producers of the so-called PFAS, chemicals that are all around us today
Ecology
How the regulation on green areas is circumvented by underground square footage
The projects are promoted to the public as green oases, linear parks and corridors, but they include huge underground square footage, including underground garages, and this partly makes the role of green areas meaningless
Construction of roads
Who is to blame for buried tires on the highway route?
The excavator that buries the tires on the route of the new highway has caused numerous reactions. The contractor says that it is an individual's irresponsibility
Renovation of Košutnjak
"Kusutnjak remains" initiative: We will not allow the destruction of greenery
The initiative for the defense of Košutnjak expresses its concern with the results of the competition of the Association of Belgrade Architects regarding the plan for the arrangement of the space between the streets of Blagoj Parović, Knez Višeslav, Miloj Zakić and Vladimir Rolović on Čukarica
Illegal logging
Criminal report for cutting down the forest in Košutnjak
The criminal complaint followed the ignoring of the call to the institutions to declare who and why cut the forest in Košutnjak
Ecology
Revolutionary discovery: Plastic that decomposes in the sea
From Japan comes a revolutionary material that could solve one of the biggest environmental problems of today - ocean pollution with plastic
Earth Day
Can we use renewable energy sources for a better planet?
It is about 4,54 billion years old, it is the third planet in the solar system, it has more than eight billion inhabitants and this April 22 marks its 56th day
Chronicle
MUP: Five arrested for environmental crime
The Minister of Internal Affairs in the technical mandate, Ivica Dačić, said that through a coordinated action to suppress environmental crime, more than a dozen crimes against the environment were solved and five people were arrested, among them the responsible persons of business companies, who are suspected of obtaining financial benefits of 539 million dinars.
Energy Industry
Energy expert Ivan Kokeza: There is no need to take environmental risks in Jadr
"In Serbia, we have old thermal power plants, whose lifespan is slowly running out. Blocks A1 and A2 of the thermal power plant in Obrenovac will have to be closed one day, because they are old and there are more and more problems with them," says international energy expert Ivan Kokeza
Ecology in music
Massive Attack: Environmental champions to role model
The popular UK electronic band Massive Attack has broken a specific record - not musically, but environmentally. In July, the band is visiting in Kragujevac
Ecology
At the bottom of Europe: Less than 20 percent of wastewater is treated in Serbia
Serbia has about fifty wastewater treatment plants, a third of which are not in operation
Ecology
Gloucestershire: Installing solar panels in schools
Each school will save up to £4.360 a year on electricity bills, according to initial calculations
Air quality
Pollution Protection Law
Along with the avalanche of protests spreading across Serbia, far from public attention, a group of environmental activists and scientists is waging war with the Ministry of Environmental Protection over a controversial bill that regulates no less than - how to breathe in Serbia
Society
Why do episodes of extreme air pollution occur in Serbia?
Poor households are unjustifiably cited as the main cause of air pollution. In Serbia, the biggest source of PM 2,5 emissions are coal-fired thermal power plants
Ecology
Serbia is suffocating from pollution
High concentrations of PM 2,5 particles, more than 110 micrograms per cubic meter, were recorded in Čačak, Užice, Kraljevo, Niš, Novi Pazar and Lazarevac.
Mining of lithium
The management of the PMF in Niš resigned after the announcement of the "Jadar" project
The entire administration of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš resigned during the morning. The departure of the administration of this Niš faculty comes a few days after the PMF took an official position that it does not agree with the Jadar project
Environment
Denmark: The biggest landscape change in the last hundred years
Currently, about 15 percent of Denmark's territory is under forest, more precisely 640.835 hectares. But with the announced plans, which await formal parliamentary approval, these figures could rise significantly
Ecology
Tailings in Kriva Feja: Does it endanger Vranjska Banja and Vranje?
Drinking water, which is already becoming a strategic resource and for which wars will be fought in the future in Serbia, is being mercilessly polluted, warns the Ecological Uprising
Ecology
Natural oases of Belgrade: Will the Reva lake resist urbanization?
Why the natural paradise of the Reva Bar, an unprotected floodplain on the left bank of the Danube, is key to the sustainable future of Belgrade and Pancevo
Project Jadar
Rio Tinto: Willing to provide a financial guarantee for remediation of possibly contaminated land, but will not say how much
If it is allowed to continue with the implementation of the Jadar project, the company Rio Tinto will provide financial guarantees for the costs of rehabilitation and recultivation of land possibly degraded due to exploitation
Ecology
We lost touch with nature and became machines - we pass that on to our children
Children have a strong connection with nature, for example insects are no stranger to them and they notice thrown garbage, Katarina Majić, the author of children's environmental books, told Vreme. But, later on, we also spoil the children in this regard
Political struggle
Only lithium unites the opposition - special elections are currently meaningless
Only if it gathers around the ban on lithium mining and the expulsion of the Rio Tinto company from Serbia can the opposition unite. You shouldn't even think about extraordinary elections in undemocratic conditions, "Vremen" interlocutors from opposition parties agree
World Ozone Day
Earth's 'Sunscreen' Preserved
Today is World Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The ozone layer, which has been at the center of environmental concerns for decades, is now showing signs of recovery thanks to global agreements. What is the importance of this sheath, with an average thickness of only three millimeters
Ecology
A plastic bottle that disappears in a month: The revolution of Chinese scientists
Chinese scientists have invented a new way of making plastic bottles that decompose in just a month. The key to accelerated decomposition lies in the fact that the bottle actually contains "seeds of self-destruction" - a bacterial spore that feeds on plastic waste
Afforestation
Serbia lacks 200 million trees, Belgrade is at the bottom of European capitals in terms of afforestation
In order to achieve a minimum of 2050 percent of Serbia's afforestation by 41, it is necessary to increase afforestation at least 15 times. And it decreases from year to year. In the conditions of global warming, this is, to put it mildly, irresponsible
Cross-border activism
When Serbs, Croats and Bosnians unite at the University: there will be no Hydropower plants
The hydropower plant, which the investor started building without carrying out an acceptance assessment for the area of the ecological network, was supposed to be built on the Una river. It united the local Serbs, Croats and Bosnians
Ecology
Unbearable stench in Bačka Topola: When a rendering plant meets a chicken farm
The worst smell is when the chickens are taken from the farm to be slaughtered after six weeks of rearing, because then the manure on which they were reared is removed, that is, the chopped straw on which their excrement was collected from the first day of rearing. But that's not the only thing suffocating the residents of Bačka Topola