Natural environment

BELGRADE - The international fair of energy and environmental protection Eco Expo will open at the event place TC Stadion in Belgrade on Thursday.

The fair will be opened by Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic.

Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Giorgos Katrougalos has drafted an amendment that will reinstate thousands of civil sector workers who were sacked or placed in a labor mobility scheme by the previous conservative administration as part of cost-cutting measures.

Scientist Johan Rockström says humanity has whizzed past four of the nine boundaries that keeps the planet hospitable to modern life. He points to the human civilization's transformation of the landscape as people have cut down forests and grown crops, all the time creating pollution and creating extinction for other species.

BELGRADE - The draft law on responsibility for damage done to the environment should be completed by the end of June, said Tina Janjatovic as the chair of the working group in charge of drafting the document.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on March 12 urged nations to set ambitious goals to curb greenhouse gases, warning climate change deniers that gambling with the Earth's future was a risky business as "there is no Planet B."        

A policeman has given testimony saying his superiors attempted to beat a university student in the trunk of a car during the Gezi Park protests of 2013 in Turkey's northwestern province of Eski?ehir.

Over the course of the first several months of 2015, more than BGN 12, 000 had to be invested in the restoration or substitution of waste sorting containers across Bulgaria.

The announcement was made by Georgi Slavchev - a representative of one of the companies appointed to administer the process within the Sofia municipality, as reported by the Bulgarian National Radio.

Europe could miss several key targets for safeguarding its species, water, air and land, said a study that warned economic recovery would add to the pressure on natural resources.

Security footage has emerged appearing to show two police officers firing tear gas canisters from close range at a crowd during the summer 2013 Gezi Park protests, which hit research assistant Burak Ünveren and left him blind in his left eye.

China's population of wild giant pandas jumped nearly 17 percent over a decade, state media reported, citing an official survey, with conservation measures credited as being behind the increase.