Nature

Sunny weather will prevail today before noon. Around and after noon, cumulus and cumulus-rain clouds will develop. There will be brief rain showers, in places with thunder. There are also conditions for hail. The northeast wind will intensify, in the eastern regions it will be moderate.

Slovenia's pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition, which opened on 20 May and runs until late November, is dedicated to the principles of ecology in architecture which have been lost in the face of advancing technology.

In the morning hours, visibility will be reduced by fog in places in the plains and valleys, but during the day, mostly sunny weather will prevail. In the hours around and after noon, cumulus and cumulus-rain clouds will develop and in many places short-term rain accompanied by thunder will fall. It will blow weak, in the eastern areas to a moderate north-easterly wind.

Almost all essential wetlands in Türkiye have experienced dramatic loss, while the area of wetlands that disappeared in the last 60 years has reached 2 million hectares, approximately one and a half times the size of the Marmara Sea, says a report by the Nature Association.

Despite a bloc-wide ban on toxic pesticides that wipe out pollinators, several European Union member-states, including Greece, continue to export more than 10,000 tons of "bee killer" a year, mainly to poorer countries, an investigation by Greenpeace and the Swiss NGO Public Eye has revealed.

After the rainy night, during the day, the precipitation will gradually decrease and in places will stop. In separate places, mainly in the northeastern part of Bulgaria, the cloudiness will break. Light to moderate winds will blow from the north-northwest, in the extreme eastern areas from the northeast.

The National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology has issued a yellow code for intense rain and thunderstorms for today, May 17, for almost all of Bulgaria. Exceptions are only four districts in the north-eastern part of the country - Shumen, Silistra, Dobrich and Varna.

"In Serbia today, the weather will be mostly cloudy, in places with rain and showers with thunder, with more precipitation in the afternoon and in the evening," announced the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute.
A weak and moderate wind will blow, strong in the Koava area, and occasionally stormy, southeasterly in the south of the Banat and in the lower Danube region.

Slovenian microbrewery Bevog and the National Institute of Biology have joined forces to raise awareness of endangered animal species. Bevog is rolling out a limited collection of beer in cans depicting animals at risk of extinction to support research of endangered grassland ecosystems with a donation to the institute.

Astronomers said on May 12 they have identified the "largest" cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago.