Environment

As Lithuania's Geological Service prepares to look for contractors to survey an amber deposit near the seaside resort of Juodkrantė, the local Neringa municipality is considering to ban amber extraction for commercial purposes.

A government commission found over 30 building violations in two regional parks near Vilnius where developers and home owners ignore regulations meant to protect natural and historical sites.

Lithuania's economy is growing without raising greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting that the country's development is environmentally sustainable, says climatologist Arūnas Bukantis.

Rapid urbanization is posing new challenges to quality of life in big cities across the globe, including in Lithuania. Even a relatively small city like Vilnius is facing problems like traffic jams and air pollution - and using smart technologies to tackle them.

Начинается ознакомление литовского общества со специальным планом железной дороги европейской колеи Rail Baltica, в котором будет указано точное место пути от Каунаса до границы с Латвией. Составитель плана - английская компания Aecom Infrastructure & Environment UK до 20 мая ждет замечаний, а по за...

Stepping up the the fight against African swine flu, Lithuanian authorities have said all wild boars in Lithuanian forests will have to be counted by the end of February.

The government has decided that from 2019 vendors will no longer be allowed to give customers plastic bags for free.

Although Lithuania has made significant progress in waste management over the last years, it is still behind many other EU countries.

Many Lithuanian politicians have no moral standards at all and will do whatever they think they can get away with, with many operating in a Brezhnev way of doing things, according to political scientist Liutauras Gudžinskas who was speaking on Žinių Radijas.

Lithuania wants to increase the share of "green" contracts in the government's public procurement deals.

Lithuania has just introduced a deposit system for disposal drink containers as it finds itself with much room to improve on waste management with around 40% of packaging going into landfills suitable for recycling.

The Constitutional Court of Lithuania ruled on Wednesday that hydraulic fracturing waste can be buried underground.

During its first year of activities, the Centre for Information Gathering and Management at the State Environmental Protection Agency (VAAT) of Lithuania, established back in autumn of 2014, received over 11,000 reports on violations of environmental protection requirements, Lithuania's Ministry of ...

Statistics Lithuania has released its annual publication Natural Resources and Environmental Protection for 2014.

Belarus has said the country's experts will respond to all questions that Lithuania has raised about safety issues of its planned Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in December.

Between 1990 to 2012, greenhouse gas emissions in Lithuania, including international aviation, were reduced by 55.6 percent, or from 49.12 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 1990 to 21.81 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2012.

On 16 October, the economy ministers of Latvia and Lithuania signed a memorandum of cooperation on the diversification of gas supplies, which foresees the two countries working together in speaking with potential gas suppliers, as well as joint purchases of gas.

Lithuanian institutions are looking into possible environmental impact of Volkswagen diesel cars after the German carmaker was exposed to have been falsifying emission test results. Volkswagen representatives in Lithuania have so far refrained from commenting on the scandal, but they have assured th...

The Lithuanian Environment Ministry has started a probe to find out how many Volkswagen cars equipped with software designed to cheat emissions tests there are in the country and what sanctions could be imposed on the German carmaker.