Natural environment

Greek students holding placards and shouting slogans take part in a "youth strike to act on climate change" demonstration in front of Parliament in Athens, Friday. Thousands of students around the globe, mobilized by word of mouth and social media, skipped class to demonstrate the failure of political elites to take action against global warming.

Dozens of students in Athens, Thessaloniki and other Greek cities on Friday gathered at central points to call for action against climate change, joining their voices to a global movement called #fridaysforfuture.

Recent improvements in Turkey's environmental policies have finally given the green light for a more sustainable future for the country, but if the country can increase its waste recycling rate to 60 percent, it could lead to an industry generating 650 million euros of revenue and creating many jobs, according to an activist.

The European Commission urged today Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Lithuania, Malta, Slovenia, Spain and the UK to fulfill their reporting obligations on the status of marine waters.

The implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a shared responsibility, calling for the active involvement of the Member States, the private sector and the civil society, George Ciamba, Minister-delegate for European Affairs told the "Annual Industry Days" Conference, informs the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) in a press release. Present at the "Navigating through SDGs.

The Greek director of the WWF conservation group was on Tuesday joined by his counterparts from France, Spain and Italy as they expressed their "grave concern" over the potential development of new onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and drilling projects in Western Greece.

Turkey has laid the groundwork to build a zero-waste town in a bid to fight environmental pollution.

There is no single river in Bulgaria that is not damaged, either alone or with its tributaries, from pollution, from drying up, from barriers to the migration of species in it, from digging for aggregates or from sewerage. That's why the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is signalling the problem. 

2018 will probably be ranked third or fourth as the warmest year since meteorological observation in the world. This was said in the show "This morning" bTV by the climatologist Prof. Georgi Rachev, who just returned from Antarctica.

''The ice in Antarctica is definitely melting'', he said.

The Supreme Administrative Court, with its final decision of 10 January this year, has allowed the construction of a complex of 45,000 square meters of built-up area on the Coral beach near the village of Lozenets. The local site tsarevo.info reported the decision first and cited by Dnevnik.