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
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The August 2023 floods wreaked havoc on buildings and infrastructure across Slovenia, but a year after the cataclysmic event it appears fewer homes than initially feared will have to be completely demolished.
The initial estimate was that 343 homes damaged by floods and landslides would have to be
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Slovenia has rolled out a new system of electricity network charges for both businesses and households, dropping the current scheme of peak and off-peak charges in favour of multiple time bands under which the charge fluctuates depending on time of day and season.
The new system, in effect from 1 O
Slovenia is facing an infestation by the oak lace bug, an invasive pest that attacks primarily oak trees. Experts say there is no major damage yet, but there could be extensive damage if the insect reproduces for several consecutive years. There are no effective measures against the bug.
This year,
Slovenia has been facing the problem of growing road traffic and greenhouse gas emissions resulting from it with data published by the Statistical Office ahead of the European Mobility Week showing emissions from that source going up by a quarter since 2008.
In 2022 road traffic produced 5.3 millio
This summer was the hottest on record in Slovenia and so was August, while the highest September temperature was recorded on the first day of the month, according to the Environment Agency.
The average summer temperature deviated from the average in the 1991-2020 period by 2.5 degrees Celsius, Rena
Slovenia's capital Ljubljana has placed 310th among 372 cities in Europe where the European Environment Agency (EEA) measured average levels of PM 2.5 fine particles in the air in 2022 and 2023. Its air quality was rated as poor.
Data about PM 2.5 particles were gathered from more than 500 stations
