Natural environment

The Environment Ministry said on Wednesday it will revoke the license of a recycling plant in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, where a fire earlier this month sent toxic smoke wafting over the capital for days.

Tests conducted by Greenpeace on apple orchards across Greece have revealed a toxic cocktail of pesticide residues, a report by the environmental group said on Tuesday.

Just when we had carved the month of June into our collective conscience as the month that sparked the biggest mass protests Turkey had ever seen, June has boosted its historical importance with the recent elections.

Authorities are investigating possible links between last week?s toxic fire that destroyed a recycling plant in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, and an illegal waste shipment from Greece that was intercepted by Bulgarian police last month.

As an investigation gets under way into the cause of a large fire that broke out at a privately owned recycling plant in Aspropyrgos, southwest of Athens, on Saturday and burned for days, sources at the fire service said they could not rule out arson.

A fire at a privately owned recycling plant in Aspropyrgos, southwest of Athens, covered the Greek capital in smog and the smell of burning plastic for a third day on Tuesday, with authorities saying that it would take at least three to four days to extinguish the blaze completely.

A few days after the government put to public debate its plan to overhaul the country?s waste management, with a greater focus on recycling and a bigger onus on local government, authorities in Patra, in the Peloponnese, have warned that their trash situation risks becoming a ?terrible threat to public health.?

The government of New Zealand has put a limit to the number of cats people can keep in an effort to limit the country’s high rate of cat ownership. NZ Conservation Minister Maggie Barry wants to restrict the number to two cats per household in an effort to save the endangered flightless Kiwis being attacked by household pats.

As of next year, Romania will have a National Catalogue of Virgin and Quasi-Virgin Forests, produced and supported by World Wide Fund (WWF) Romania, director of the environmental organization Csibi Magor told AGERPRES.

Bulgaria's Deputy Agriculture Minister Vasil Grudev has reported a great interest in the 2014-2020 edition of the EU operational program Rural Development.

In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio Grudev informed that a total of 2400 projects worth BGN 1.1 B had been submitted under the program since April 14.