New Caledonia is a French island in SW Pacific Ocean, with 18.575 km2 land area and 240.000 inhabitants, half of them are indigenous people Kanak. When looking at pictures on the internet, New Caledonia seems like heaven on Earth. But not all is, as it appears on first sight. In [...]

PROBLEMS OF BEIJING Beijing is the capital of the People’s Republic of China and the world’s third most populous city proper. It’s also one of the most polluted cities in the world. China’s air and water pollution situation is described as being out of control. It is one of the most alarming problems citizens [...]

Naslednje okoljsko poročilo se ukvarja s problematiko zelenih površin v Los Angelesu v Kaliforniji, ZDA. Take površine imajo veliko pozitivnih učinkov, zato je pomakanje le-teh okoljski problem. . Tako čistijo zrak, zadržujejo poplavno vodo, zmanjšujejo vročino, so življenjski prostor za rastline in živali ter rekreacijski prostor za prebivalstvo. V Los [...]

The Toolangi State Forest is situated close to Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria (Australia) and presents an important part in providing the quality and quantity of much of Melbourne's water supply. The forest is a unique example of biodiversity, as it supports many endangered species, such as the Leadbeater's [...]

Building a paint shop on the Drava Plains in Eastern part of Slovenia, as is the case with Magna Nukleus, is a case of environmental injustice because of two issues. First, because it led to destruction of fertile (and first- class) agricultural land, which is also considered a narrow water [...]

Saesaare Hydropower Plant (HPP) was founded on Ahja River in year 1950/52. At the same place was one of Estonian most beautiful and longest rapid before HPP was founded. During the construction, rocks of rapid was used as construction material of HPP and rapid disappeared. During the construction of HPP [...]

The Białowieża forest, located on the border between Poland and Belarus, is Europe's oldest remaining primeval forest, where large-scale logging threatens to destroy the richness of biodiversity. The last remaining primeval forest in European lowlands offers the habitat for the last largest European bison herd on the continent (nearly 900 [...]

Since the late 1970s, the Turkish government has been planning the South Anatolia project (GAP project). The goal is to generate energy and respond to the increasing needs of the country. [3] A total of 22 dams and 19 hydropower plants are to be built along the Euphrates and the [...]

In 1997 Saare county government (Estonia) started a project with a purpose to find out what are the technical and economic opportunities to develop fixed link between Muhu Island and mainland. On the socio-economic aspects development of fixed connection is justified because it would be used by people living on island [...]

Historically, phosphorite has been excavated in Estonia - Ülgase (1924 -1938) and Maardu underground mine (1940-1965). In Maardu the open-cast mine was opened in 1954, which was accompanied by several environmental problems - extensive destruction of ecosystems, water and air pollution, soil degradation. The biggest environmental problem was the self-firing [...]

Saranda forest is known as mountainous region of India, with a total size of over 82,000 hectares [1]. Although it is naturally one of the most species-rich and the world largest Sal tree (Shorea Robusta) forest, the Indian Government has leased around 10,000 ha of Saranda's forests for various mining [...]

Cyanide, one of the most powerful poisons for every being is used in the mining industry for gold mining, for its property to highlight gold when it chemically binds to it. However, using substances such as cyanide causes large environmental damage. The most famous case is certainly the one happened [...]

Inaugurated on December 17th, 2016, the Gilgel Gibe III Dam is one of the most controversial infrastructures in history. This huge work was carried out in the valley of the Omo River - the main inflow of Lake Turkana (Kenya), the largest permanent lake in the world located in a [...]

On a country of hundreds of island, spread over 29 coral reefs in the South Pacific and barely two meters above sea level, the climate change cannot to be overlooked. [3] The sea was already devouring the Marshall Islands, bit by bit, while 196 countries at the climate summit in [...]

When Berta Cáceres received the Goldman award for her life as an environmental activist in 2015 and her fight against the dam Agua Zarca in Hondura, she described the worries associated with it. [5] Her opponents followed her and threatened to kidnap and kill her as well as her family. [...]

In November 2010, the Colombian National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) granted the Colombian Petroleum Company (Ecopetrol) and the companies Repsol (Spain) and YPF (Argentina) a license to explore and exploit potential sources of gas in two areas of the San Andres Archipelago, Providencia and Santa Catalina. Located in the south-western Caribbean, [...]

The thermoelectric central project in the site of Punta Alcalde in the city of Huasco, Chile includes two generating units with a total installed capacity of 740 MW. The population of Huasco was raising the alarm since they are already suffering high contamination induced by the petcoke fuel used by [...]

For sixty years, the United States Navy occupied up to 70% of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques as a training ground for live-fire practice and as a bomb testing site. This led to the displacement of half of the island’s inhabitants who were relocated to the center portion of [...]

Several companies are currently planning to explore for gas and oil in the Balearic Sea (Gulf of Valencia and Gulf of Lion). This prospection involves areas of the Spanish coast: Balearic Islands, Community of Valencia and Catalonia. Currently in the exploration phase, Cairn Energy (though its subsidiary company Capricorn Spain [...]

Nuclear energy has no place in a safe, clean, sustainable future. Nuclear energy is both expensive and dangerous, and just because nuclear pollution is invisible doesn’t mean it’s clean. Nuclear power has proven to be technology with serious health and environmental concerns, for example these facilities have regular releases on [...]