ecology

We've been on an environmental wave lately. From the case of Pirin National Park and the potential construction of a second lift in Bansko, public attention has shifted its focus to the extremely serious air pollution in large cities, especially in Sofia. If you live in Sofia and have been out in the last few days, you can confirm. …

From EKIP we republish from Facebook the comment of Teodor Dimokenchev regarding the local referendums recently held in Tran and Uglen: Once again, a local referendum is being held in a Bulgarian settlement (Uglen) to approve a serious infrastructure project. Once again, investments have been stopped by the local population. I am personally …

Or the story of how the far-right Bulgarian parties sided with the rich resorts against the poor municipalities. The Ministry of Environment and Water officially announced that an eco-assessment has never been done on a management plan for a Bulgarian natural or national park. Here we are talking about an external eco-assessment, since every draft plan for …

The Paris climate agreement is a fact. Now that the jubilant cheers over its signing have died down, it's time to take a sober look at what actually happened, who promised what, and what the consequences will be. Global industrial carbon dioxide emissions, from fossil fuel burning and cement production, are dominating …

Eight years ago, Coca-Cola set a goal to return all of the water it uses in its products to nature by 2020. On August 24, 2015, the company announced that it had achieved its goal five years ahead of schedule. Unlike the environmental dramas we are bombarded with daily – resources are …

Martin Tillier I would bet that most people in the developed world are already familiar with the essence of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” For those who aren’t, it’s a technique used to extract oil and gas from previously inaccessible underground shale (rock formations). Fracking has had a major impact on the energy industry …