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In July 2015 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Yerevan Municipality signed a loan contract of about 8 million euro (that will be granted to a company fully owned by the Municipality) for constructing a new landfill next to current Nubarashen landfill. Additional 8 million loan is given by European Investment Bank and another 8 million Euro grant by EU Neighborhood Investment Facility. The goal of this project is to

An investigation has been carried in the case of 13 out of 29 violations, and an administration five in the amount of 1,210,000 AMD has been imposed. 16 cases are still in the

On October 19-23 no precipitation is predicted. Southwest wind speed is

There is a real HPP construction boom both in Armenia and in our neighboring country – Georgia. But there is a difference: large HPPs are constructed on the mountain rivers in Georgia, while Armenia constructs SHPPs on the rivers and their tributaries. Georgian “Green Alternative” investigated the social and ecological impact of NGOs and

Tree planting and bioengineering works have been performed in the area of 15 ha in Mets Mantash community, Shirak Region. The works have been implemented in the frames of the Integrated Erosion Control project, which is

Construction of the petroleum processing plant by “ArmOil” Company in Yeghvard Town, Kotayq Region, having not undergone environmental impact assessment hasn’t been suspended

On October 19-23 the air temperature will gradually go up by 2-3 degrees, after will not change considerably.

From 1 July to 2 October 2017, 44 criminal cases have been initiated based on Article 296 of RA Criminal Code. Four criminal cases have been initiated on official crimes

In the frames of "Supporting New Reforms in SHPP Sector through CSO-Government Dialogue" project, the expert group visited "Arevis-1" SHPP, which is located

At night of October 18 the air temperature will go down by 1-2 degrees, on October 19-20 it will go up by 3-4 degrees.

"Talk on Modern Mining Practices and The Beyond Zero Harm Framework" event at the American University of Armenia has been canceled due to

Under the Comprehensive and enhanced partnership agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Armenia, the cooperation in the field of energy shall include, among other things, the closure and

On October 13, 2017 at 21:40 a written report was submitted by the responsible person of Tavush Region of “Pantera Security” LLC R. Khanumyan informing that on the same day at about 20:50 a group of people attacked the two employees of

It's reported that the wildfires have burned more than 90,000 ha, and and over 200 people are still considered missing in the

It turned out that the fire had broken out in a wooden guard house belonging to “Sevan National Park” SNCO

We learned from the Facebook post by the Acopian Center for the Environment of the American University of Armenia that the university in partnership with Lydain offshore mining company is organizing the public speech of

On October 16 in separate regions, especially in Lori, Tavush and Gegharkunik the wind speed may exceed up to 25-30 m/s, which can damage trees and roofs of the houses. We urge the citizens to be careful and to go out as little as possible.

The Territorial Divisions of Nature Protection and Soil Inspection Body of RA Nature Protection Ministry detected the following during its inspections