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The Lovrenc Lakes, a rare example of pristine high-altitude wetlands. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA

New nature park created in Pohorje

Environment & NatureSociety
Woody high-altitude wetlands and mountain pastures that have long attracted visitors to Pohorje, a lush massif in northeast Slovenia, will enjoy special protection with the creation of a new Pohorje Regional Park.
The park stretches over 52 square kilometres in the upper altitudes of Pohorje and in
The freeze-dried barley dish that Slovenian students made for an astronaut's breakfast in a NASA competition. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA

Third place for Slovenians in astronaut food cup

Science & EducationScience & Technology
Slovenian students have won third place in the NASA HUNCH Culinary Challenge, a competition where students come up with innovative meals for astronauts.
The Slovenian team, the first non-American team in the history of the competition, consisted of two students from BIC Ljubljana, an educational ce
The opening of the trotting competition season in Ljutomer. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
The small region of Prlekija in Slovenia's northeast, tucked away along the right bank of the River Mura, is an often overlooked part of the country, even though most people are quite familiar with many of its delicious products: from excellent wines to the sweet prleška gibanica layer cake or the
Three bivouac shelters from waste cans to be built in the mountains. Photo: Laško Union brewery
The Slovenian Alpine Association, the country's largest brewery and other partners have teamed up to collect waste aluminium cans and turn them into bivouac shelters in the mountains.
The cans will be collected for a year in dedicated yellow bins at 16 locations around the country as part of a proj
A ceremony in front of a villa where the founding meeting of the WWII resistance movement Liberation Front took place. Photo: Boštjan Podlogar/STA
Slovenia observes the Day of Uprising Against Occupation on 27 April, a holiday honouring the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation during the Second World War.
The WWII resistance was spearheaded by the Liberation Front, an organisation founded in Ljubljana on 26 April 1941, 20 days after
Trees in autumn shades. Foto: Tamino Petelinšek/STA
Slovenia's Earth Overshoot Day landed on 25 April this year, which is one week later than last year. The day, also known as Ecological Debt Day, marks the day when the annual biocapacity of Earth would be used up if everyone lived like people in Slovenia do.
According to the Global Footprint Networ
A Eurpojackpot draw. Photo: Courtesy of Loterija Slovenije
A Slovenian player has won €60 million, the largest lottery taking in the country to date, in the transnational lottery Eurojackpot, the Slovenian national lottery has announced.
The Slovenian split the €120 million jackpot with a German player by matching five correct numbers out of 50 plus anothe
The Ljubljana headquarters of DARS, the motorway company. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
Slovenian police conducted searches at two dozen locations on 23 April as part of a probe into allegations of bribery at the state-run motorway company DARS under the previous management.
The police said six persons were suspected of abuse of office and accepting or offering bribes. They did not na
The kiosk designed by architect Jože Plečnik by the Ljubljana Triple Bridge unveiled after renovation. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
A kiosk designed by Slovenia's greatest architect Jože Plečnik (1872-1957) has officially reopened in Ljubljana's Prešeren Square to give up-and-coming entrepreneurs a boost.
Located next to the Triple Bridge, another of the architect's masterpieces that is a major Ljubljana landmark, the renovated
Samo Kutin, Bakalina Velika, plays the lyre made from an ancient silver fir. Photo: STA
The first two instruments made from the wood of a Stone-Age silver fir that was discovered in a pond in the west of the country made their concert debut in Ljubljana on 20 April.
The premiering lyre and flute were just part of the show in which Bakalina Velika, a band inspired by the pantheistic tr
UKC Ljubljana performs the targeted radionuclide therapy of prostate cancer. Photo: UKC Ljubljana
The UKC Ljubljana medical centre has recently performed a new treatment for an incurable type of prostate cancer in what was the first time the therapy was rolled out in Slovenia. A major milestone in the fight against the most common cancer in men, the treatment extends life and stops cancer from
Slovenian artist Nika Špan's work at the 60th Venice Art Biennale. Photo: Katja Kodba/STA
Slovenia has inaugurated its pavilion at the 60th Venice Art Biennale. It features a work by conceptual artist Nika Špan, displayed in a park between the main exhibition venues of the Arsenale and Giardini.
An unusual nomadic structure, Špan's Garden Secret for You is both a sculpture and architect