
Drastic cuts to the budget of the Ministry of Environment combined with the approval of anti-environment laws in Congress will put at risk the fulfillment of…

Harsh labour conditions, social uncertainty, a polluted environment and oligarchic ownership dominate coal mining in Bulgaria. Despite the promises to overcome climate change and to…

Bulgaria has failed to comply with EU clean air standards, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided on April 5, 2017. The judgment concluded case…

Momentum, a youth-based grassroots movement, unexpectedly blew Hungary’s increasingly totalitarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, away from his own Olympic dream. And the movement, which had…

Women with short hair are braver, the saying goes in Bulgaria. Evelyne Huytebroeck is one such woman. She served as Minister of Environment, Energy, Water Jurisdiction…

What is similar between the Chilika Lake in Asia, the Gorla Maggiore wetland zone in Italy and the Ugarchin farm in Bulgaria is that they…

Vlasina, a pristine area in southeastern Serbia featuring a beautiful lake on the Jerma river, appears undisturbed by any possible transborder pollution from nearby Bulgaria….

Some of the most fertile lands of Macedonia, surrounding lush forests and freshwater springs, seem destined to be sacrificed as a gold mining company plans…

A beautiful, yet impoverished and depopulated border area of Bulgaria, home of bears, wolves and lynx, faces a difficult dilemma: should it welcome or oppose…