Month: June 2023

Under the leadership of the Water Research Institute T.G.M., v.v.i. and in cooperation with the Research Institute of Agricultural Technology, v.v.i., we are involved in the implementation of a project to identify the conditions under which wastewater treatment plants can be operated with lower greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining sufficient wastewater treatment efficiency. The project …

In the third part of the series on ecolabel holders, we introduce one of the oldest ceramic tile brands in the world, RAKO, which has held the EU Ecolabel for its entire production of these products since 2022. Eva Dvořáčková, Quality Manager at LASSELSBERGER, s.r.o., the owner of the RAKO brand, described the reasons why …

On the night of 5 to 6 June, an explosion ruptured the dam of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River in southern Ukraine. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel family of satellites allow us to monitor the scale of the huge environmental disaster in the Kherson region. The map output shows the Normalized Difference Water …

Last week, at the invitation of Environment Minister Petr Hladík, top representatives and coordinators of Local Agenda 21 from the most successful municipalities, towns and districts met. The meeting was attended by the top category A holders Chrudim, Jihlava and Prague 14, and category B holders Kopřivnice, Prague 10, Prague 12, Velké Meziříčí, Rožnov pod …