Serbia

Zlatko Kokanovic, a 48yearold Serbian farmer, and fellow villagers have actually stimulated nationwide protests to stop the structure of Rio Tinto's first European lithium mine, alerting it would pollute their land and threaten public health. Last month, Serbia restored Rio Tinto'a license to develop what would be Europe's most significant lithium mine in the Jadar area of western Serbia, 2 years after it was annulled due to protests by ecological groups. Cautions about the destructive impact of mining by Kokanovic and his neighbours in the town of Gornje Nedeljice inspired thousands of people to object versus the Rio Tinto project...

Firefighters in North Macedonia fought a dozen wildfires fanned by heavy winds for a 3rd day on Wednesday, and hot temperature levels and dry weather likewise sustained smaller blazes throughout Greece and the Balkans, authorities said. One fire was spreading out in the municipality of Negrevo near the Bulgarian border and another around Kumanovo near Serbia, said Goran Stojanovski at North Macedonia's centre for crisis management. Since of the heats, the plant life is dry and the soil is really hot, which is making our work more difficult, he stated. North Macedonia's southerly neighbour Greece has long fought with wildfires...

Individuals braving scorching temperature levels sought relief in Belgrade's Ada Ciganlija lake, fountains and cafes on Thursday while the Serbian government purchased employers to protect outside employees from the heatwave. Meteorologists anticipate temperature levels of around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) throughout Serbia today as winds from North Africa pushed a hot and dry front throughout the Balkans. Health authorities and meteorologists stated a red. weather alert and encouraged people not to venture outside. Belgrade's emergency situation service said its physicians stepped in more. than 100 times overnight, mainly dealing with people with heart and. chronic conditions. The Ministry of...

AngloAustralian miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday freshly published environmental research studies showed that its Serbia lithium task, which was stopped in 2022 after enormous demonstrations, would be safe for the environment. If executed, the $2.4 billion Jadar lithium task in Western Serbia might cover 90% of Europe's current lithium needs and assist to make the company a leading lithium producer. Lithium, mainly used in batteries for electrical cars ( EV) and mobile devices, is considered a crucial product by numerous major economies. On Thursday, Rio's Serbian unit revealed numerous environmental research studies performed over the past six and a...

AngloAustralian miner Rio Tinto stated on Thursday recently published environmental studies showed that its Serbia lithium job, which was stopped in 2022 after massive protests, would be safe for the environment. If executed, the $2.4 billion Jadar lithium task in Western Serbia might cover 90% of Europe's existing lithium requirements and assist to make the company a leading lithium producer. Lithium, mainly utilized in batteries for electrical vehicles ( EV) and mobile phones, is considered a crucial product by lots of significant economies. On Thursday, Rio's Serbian unit made public a number of environmental studies carried out over the previous...

The 6 Western Balkan countries, desiring join the European Union, fulfilled in Montenegro on Thursday to go over how to speed up required reforms, develop their own single market and ultimately sign up with the bloc. The countries - Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia - were guaranteed EU subscription years back however the accession procedure has actually slowed to a crawl, primarily because of unwillingness among the EU's 27 members and an absence of reforms needed to satisfy EU standards, including those worrying the economy, judiciary, legal systems, environmental defense and media liberties. The meeting in Montenegro...

Before dawn, 78yearold Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her hubby then walked into her town in eastern Serbia to safeguard a barrier stopping trucks going into an openpit copper mine that homeowners say is contaminating local land and water. Radivojevic is one of two lots ladies who given that January took shifts day and night on a little bridge in Krivelj to object against the mine, run by a subsidiary of China's Zijin Mining, that controls the surrounding countryside and encroaches on their homes. While their spouses work, the ladies are combating to convince the company to relocate their village...

It never struck Baki Bajraktari that the presence of hydrogen in the Bulqize chrome mine where he operates in northeastern Albania could be considered great news: a colleague passed away in an explosion in 2011 when a group hit a gas pocket. Bajraktari altered his mind after a study released in peer evaluation journal Science in January exposed a reservoir containing between 5,000 and 50,000 lots of hydrogen locked below the mine that could ultimately help supply a response to minimizing emissions from the region. If they handle to get that hydrogen in pipelines that is a. huge financial investment...

A hovering drone drops linden and pine seeds wrapped in soil onto a barren hillside outside Kosovo's capital Pristina, part of an effort to reforest thousands of hectares lost to illegal logging and wildfires. Environmentalists say logging, likewise driven by demand for popular wood-fired stoves, is threatening wild animals such as brown bears, lynx, wild goats and roe deer whose populations are lessening in Kosovo. A study by non-profit organisation Sustainability Management Kosova (SLK), the small Balkan nation is losing more than 700 hectares of forest yearly. SLK has actually teamed up with Croatian company Job 02 to drop seeds...