Pollution

Venice Biennale

10.May 2026. Sonja Ciric

Why are people waiting in long lines to enter the Austrian Pavilion?

Professor Snežana Arnautović Stjepanović was part of the performance, which caused people to wait in long lines in front of the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. These are her impressions

Amsterdam

24.February 2026. NM

Environmental cleanup of billboards: No more advertising that harms the climate

Starting May 1 this year, residents and tourists will no longer see advertisements for coal and oil, airplane flights, cruises, and meat delicacies on the streets of the capital of the Netherlands.

Donald Trump with outstretched hand and finger in Davos at the World Economic Forum, portrait

SAD

14.February 2026. B. B.

Trump decided that greenhouse gases are not harmful, canceled almost all the rules

The 2009 Obama administration's so-called "endangerment decision" scientifically determined that various greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health

Air quality

02.December 2025 RV

How polluted is Belgrade this morning?

Winter has arrived, and with it the inevitable air pollution. This is the case at least in Serbia, which for years has refused to shut down harmful thermal power plant units, even though it has committed to do so

Polluted air has a particularly negative effect on all children under the age of five.

Air pollution

27.November 2025 B. B.

Every fourth infant death in Serbia is attributed to air pollution

Polluted air has a particularly negative effect on all children up to the age of five, but deaths are more frequent in the neonatal period, because in the first month of life, newborns are particularly sensitive to all environmental influences

Ecology

26.November 2025 Maja Miljevic Djajic

What did the ancient Romans inhale?

It is known reliably that the ancient Romans also polluted the environment. Lead, for example, was even used to make children's toys. Should that information comfort or worry us?

Carbon tax

24.October 2025 MLJ

A pollution tax is coming: Money is going into a bottomless budget hole

Serbian companies that produce electricity and other major polluters will pay an additional tax to the state from January 1. However, the authorities have not yet passed all the necessary laws that would make this possible, and there is no provision for control of the money that the state will collect.

The Bor region has been described as a "victim zone", that is, an area that is extremely contaminated and in which vulnerable groups bear a disproportionately large burden of environmental pollution.

07.October 2025 B. B.

The UN is very concerned about the pollution in Bor, which has been designated as a "sacrifice zone"

UN special rapporteurs have described the Bor region as a "victim zone" - an area that is extremely contaminated

Urbanism

28.September 2025 KS

City Institute: There is no significant soil pollution at the location of the future Marina Dorćol

At the location of the future Marina Dorćol settlement in Belgrade, there are no significant deviations of polluting materials in the soil in relation to the maximum allowed values, announced the City Institute for Public Health

Marina Dorcol

05.September 2025 MN

"Belgrade remains": The land in Marina Dorćol is not dangerous, assures the City Institute

Representatives of the City Institute for Public Health presented to the Initiative "Belgrade Remains" the results of the soil analysis they did on the Marina Dorćol area

Health

23.July 2025 MM

How can we not catch an infection while swimming?

Bathers who planned to refresh themselves on the Vlasina river will not be able to do so, because there is bacteria in the water. What measures should be taken so that an unwanted infection does not spoil our summer

Wages and pollution

29.April 2025. MLJ

When you breathe arsenic for 150 euros more

Outside of Belgrade and Novi Sad, salaries in Serbia are the best where there is mining and air pollution. Let's say in Bor

Ecology

03.April 2025. Maja Miljevic Djajic

What did the ancient Romans inhale?

It is known reliably that the ancient Romans also polluted the environment. Lead, for example, was even used to make children's toys. Should this information comfort or worry us?

Air pollution

03.January 2025 IN THE

All over Serbia, the air is extremely polluted - the institutions do not react

In the past few days, the air in Serbia has been polluted to the extent that it is dangerous for health, but there is no warning from the Ministry of Health through public information.

Ecology

31.December 2024 B. B.

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.

Science

25.December 2024 Sushmita Ramakrishnan/DW

Poison in kitchen plastic

A new study in the journal Chemosphere shows that recycled black plastic, which is used to make cookware, cookware or toys, releases toxins, especially when heated

Air pollution

15.November 2024 IN THE

Serbia in disguise: Why is the air getting worse?

Polluted air during the heating season suffocates many citizens of Serbia. Air quality monitoring applications record critical levels of pollution. "episodes" of extremely bad air are coming to Belgrade

Mines in Serbia

13.September 2024 MS

Seventh verdict against Ziđin in Bor: Ridiculous sentences below the legal minimum

The Chinese company Ziđin, which operates in Bor, has been condemned for the seventh time for building a mining facility on a tailings dump without the approval of the Ministry of Mining and Energy. The total "fine" cost this company eight million dinars

Environment

01.September 2024 Mila Jovanovic

It's floating like a toadstool full of garbage

Nišava was recently hit by an environmental disaster. Plastic bags, cans and even baby carriages floated along the river. City cleanliness and local authorities do nothing. Ecologist Dejan Lekić tells "Vreme" that the problem is also in the large amount of waste water that flows into rivers throughout Serbia.

Čukarik backwater

21.June 2024 Mila Jovanovic

Skyscrapers threaten to swallow up the forgotten bay on Ada

The competition for the urban-architectural solution of the Čukarica creek was announced six years ago, and nothing has been done since then. The green carpet of sludge, unpleasant odors and waste have allegedly been cleaned, and this bay is in danger of becoming part of the Dubai structure of Belgrade on the water, instead of an oasis for sports and recreation in the interest of the citizens of Belgrade.

Uzice

12.May 2024. MP

The fire at the landfill has been smoldering for the tenth day, while the authorities assure that there is nothing to worry about

A state of emergency was declared only in Užice, where the "Duboko" landfill is located, and the smoke spread to the surrounding municipalities. Who will be in the cloud of smoke depends on the wind, but also the success of further extinguishing the fire

Environment and health

14.march 2024 SZ/Klima101

Arsenic pollution causes various diseases, and thermal power plants in Serbia are its main emitters

The lignite we use in energy production is by far the biggest source of arsenic in our water, air and soil, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA). This pollution causes diseases from cancer to diabetes

Environment and health

06.February 2024. SZ/Standard/WHO

Polluted air also threatens babies in the womb

Exposure to harmful air pollutants harms everyone, even babies in the womb, research shows. Data from the World Health Organization show that the number of people suffering from lung cancer is increasing across the planet, and the number of deaths due to air pollution in Serbia is twice as high as in the world.

Environment

17.January 2024 Z.S.

The worst air in the world: In Valjevo, you breathe at your own risk

"If this kind of situation had been observed in the European Union, the alarm would probably have sounded. Because when they are exposed to so much pollution, people can fall unconscious on the street, which happened," Vladimir Radoslavljević from the Valjevo citizens' association "iRevolucija" told Vreme.

Beograd

25.November 2023 S.Ć.

Today, three protests against the state and city authorities were held in Belgrade

Lawyers believe that the Ministry of Justice is the cause of the bad situation in the judiciary, the residents of the settlement "Stepa Stepanović" are looking for a school where there will be places for all children, and the residents of Mirijevo, Karaburma and Višnjićka banja cannot breathe

Environment

01.November 2023 Sanja Zrnić

Sewerage, Serbia's weak point

Belgrade is the only capital city in Europe that does not have a wastewater treatment system and discharges all of it into the Sava and Danube rivers. Due to planned and unplanned urbanization, it is no longer possible to implement previously planned solutions. While waiting for new proposals, the artist Andrej Josifovski, known as the Pianist, performed the performance "The Bloody River" in order to, as he told the "Vremena" portal, shake us out of the frenzy in which we have been for a long time.

Pollution

26.October 2023 MJ

1,3 million euros for noise mapping in Belgrade

Noise is treated as a form of environmental pollution. The process of noise mapping in Belgrade includes the creation of a 3D digital model of the terrain and a model of construction facilities, locating the noise sources of road, rail and air traffic, industrial plants and ports