Like the rest of the world, Slovenia experienced its warmest year on record in 2024. The average temperature was 1.8 degrees Celsius above the average for 1991-2020.
Data presented by the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO) on 16 January show the average temperature climbed to 11.3 degrees Celsius
Ajdovščina, a municipality in the wind swept Vipava Valley, has started planting a 23-kilometre windbreak made of trees and shrubs to protect the fertile farmland in the valley floor, a key part of the region's efforts to adapt to climate change.
The plan is to plant 64,000 trees and almost 100,000
Starting out small 60 years ago, the Piran Aquarium has developed into an important educational and research institution in an effort to preserve marine biodiversity.
Located in a historic building by the Piran fishing harbour, next to what used to be a fish market, the aquarium keeps 140 different
Partners from Slovenia, Denmark and Germany have joined forces in a project to help protect amphibians and restore their habitats in six areas of Natura 2000 protected areas in the three countries.
The Life Amphicon project aims to boost the population of amphibians and their habitats, reduce amphi
The Triglav National Park, the oldest and largest nature conservation park in Slovenia and one of the largest in Europe, is marking 100 years since its inception this year.
Today, the reserve spans nearly 84,000 hectares (840 sq km) across most of the Julian Alps, and it accounts for roughly 4% of
A new railway that will enable faster travel between the port town of Koper and the Divača rail junction is slated to open to traffic in 2026, but after all the tunnels have been bored workers will now have to build viaducts inside them to bridge and preserve karst caves.
As many as 88 karst caves
Renewable energy accounted for 25.07% of Slovenia's gross final energy consumption last year, which means the country met the target under an EU directive for the first time.
Slovenia had originally been supposed to meet the 25% renewable energy target by 2020, but failed, so it had to pay for stat
Slovenia has a number of ice caves, but due to climate change ice volumes are dwindling fast along with the information that has accumulated for thousands of years. Researchers hope to extract as much knowledge as possible before it is too late.
"In the past 10 to 20 years, we have seen exponential
The Ljubljana city authorities are planning to cut down over a fifth of all trees from the castle hill for safety reasons, applying heli-logging to safely remove more than 200 trees that are slated for felling.
Together with experts at the Ljubljana Biotechnical Faculty, the municipality checked ov
