January 29, 2009 | Cities
Environmental, urban development and other important problems will be discussed at sittings of the National Council on Sustainable Development of Armenia, the Council Chairman, Prime Minister of the RA Tigran Sargsyan said at the January 23 sitting of the Council.
December 22, 2008 | Cities
As a result of microbiological researches it turned out, that drinking water in several communities of Syunik region, Goris, Kapan, Meghri and Sisyan, is polluted by 90%.
November 27, 2008 | Cities
The pollutants of environment became irretrievable. Taking into account the geographical structure of Armenia and industrial peculiarity heavy metals impact is the most actual for the environment.
November 26, 2008 | Cities
The experts are alarmed – ecological environment in Qajaran and Kapan faces serious problems. Armen Saghatelyan the director of an ecological research center said that hyper-toxic elements are found in the dust. The source is found in the tailing dams, say the experts. Note that before they were located in the city, after they were recovered and became populated.
November 19, 2008 | Cities
The Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets in the RA will conclude the series of garbage gathering and tree planting activities launched in the regions of Armenia by a tree planting activity in Nubarashen on November 20.
October 16, 2008 | Cities | Gegharkunik
The decision of company "GPMGold " on Sotq gold mine and Ararat Gold Recovery Company is a subject of extreme anxiety of Ararat and Vardenis towns inhabitants.
October 03, 2008 | Cities | Kotayk
According to RA Nature Protection Ministry information, cement dust content in air basin of Hrazdan town exceeded the norm by 4.8 times in July of the present year. This figure increases month by month.
August 18, 2008 | Cities | Yerevan
On 16 August 2008 the residents inhabiting at 2 Tamanyan str. and 39/12 Mashtots Ave. gathered in the yard to hinder tree cutting. The bulldozer had already got into the yard, when the representatives of Yerevan Power Supply Network, special mission units and police, more than 15 people arrived.
June 16, 2008 | Cities | Ararat | Kotayk | Lori | Shirak | Yerevan
Air pollutants slightly exceed the maximum permissible concentration in Armenian cities’ atmosphere and rivers, National Statistical Service of Armenia says with a reference to the Nature Protection ministry’s information.
May 02, 2008 | Cities | Ararat
The environmental and health problems are becoming more widespread in Ararat city while the price of gold is getting higher and higher. Thought the environmental and health specialists try to prove that those problems are closely connected with more global things, people in Ararat are concerned with the damages and accidents caused by the industry.
March 29, 2008 | Cities | Yerevan
Ornithologists alarm that feathery inhabitants of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are on the verge of disappearance.
December 17, 2007 | Cities | Lori
Alaverdi’s copper-molybdenum factory will likely close down in 2008. The factory belongs to “ACP” CJSC. Local residents are seriously concerned over the factory’s impending closure as it feeds over 1100 families.
December 01, 2007 | Cities | Lori | Shirak | Yerevan
According to RA Ministry of Nature Protection, monthly ozone concentration has reduced 1.5 times in October of the current year.
September 03, 2007 | Cities | Kotayk | Lori | Shirak | Yerevan
According to RA Ministry of Nature Protection, in July of the current year the concentration of dust and toxic complexes in atmosphere in Yerevan, Gyumri, Hrazdan, Alaverdi and Vanadzor cities have exceeded the standard.
