Nature

Plastic pollution is so widespread in the environment that you may be ingesting five grams a week, the equivalent of eating a credit card, a study commissioned by the environmental charity WWF International said on Wednesday.

The good weather took a sudden turn Tuesday, with heavy rainstorms and hail battering many parts of the mainland, including Attica.

Almost 600 plant species have disappeared from the wild over the past 250 years. This shows a new study quoted by the BBC. The number of lost plants is based on genuinely extinct species, not assumptions, and is twice as large as all bird species, mammals and fish taken together.

Scientists say the plants are dying up to 500 times faster than what would be expected naturally.

Turkey produced 89% of its electricity from domestic and renewable resources on June 5, according to statistics from Turkey's Energy and Natural Resources Ministry.     

The National Weather Administration (ANM) issued on Saturday a Code Orange warning for high atmosphere instability, valid in the next ten hours in 11 counties, and a Code Yellow for the same phenomena in 20 counties and Bucharest.

22 sensors will monitor the air quality in the capital.
They will be installed in autumn. This was announced by the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova during the exhibition "Innovation for air quality".

The event was part of the celebration of the World Environment Day.

It will be mostly sunny today. Before noon fog will form in places in lowlands and valleys. Around noon and in the afternoon, thunder clouds will form again, bringing rain showers and thunder to some places in western and central Bulgaria.

It will be mostly sunny this morning. In the afternoon and by midnight, thunder clouds will form, bringing rain showers and thunderstorms to many places, mainly in western and central Bulgaria.
Chances of severe weather locally are still high, but in fewer places compared to the previous days. In the eastern areas rain is unlikely, expect more sunshine and higher temperatures.

Today we are celebrating the World Environment Day. The theme of 2019 is: "Together we can beat the air pollution."

The Ministry of the Environment together with Sofia Municipality organized an exhibition "Innovation for air quality", to which Bulgarian companies will present their innovative solutions against pollution.

The northern port city of Thessaloniki celebrates World Environment Day with a series of events for the entire family at the Pasha's Gardens in the area of Evangelistria.