Estonia

Baltic Sea ice is decreasing year-by-year

March 17, 2025

Climate change is affecting the Baltic Sea and every winter less ice coverage forms. When there is less ice, the waves become stronger. When discussing how climate change impacts the [..]

Opinions

Soil and climate change: How healthy soil can help us combat a real and dangerous phenomenon

February 20, 2025

To some European citizens, soil may look like mud or a dry patch of earth. Still, it is a complex ecosystem containing minerals, organic matter, and many living organisms that [..]

World

NATO helps to boost scientific cooperation on the security implications of climate change in the southern neighbourhood

November 22, 2024

Experts on climate change from 16 countries – including NATO members and partners – as well as from NATO, the European Union and the African Union gathered in Rome (Italy), [..]

Opinions

Business freedom needs limiting in climate crisis

October 9, 2024

Marilin Eessalu, executive manager of NGO Estonian Green Movement; Halliki Kreinin, senior researcher at the Research Institute for Sustainability Helmholtz Potsdam (RIFS) Attempts to steer business activities towards more sustainable [..]

Lithuania

Lithuania records increased air pollution due to burning forests in Belarus

September 9, 2024

Lithuania recorded increased particulate air pollution on Saturday, and the country’s Environmental Protection Agency said it was due to burning forests and peatbogs in Belarus. According to the Environmental Protection [..]

Latvia

Latvia ups its renewable energy target for 2030 to 60%

June 13, 2024

Latvia plans to increase the share of renewable energy in final consumption to 60 percent by 2030, according to the updated National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) for 2021-2023. In [..]

Estonia

Bank of Estonia governor Madis Muller – the central bank should not be involved in shaping climate policy

April 30, 2024

Bank of Estonia governor Madis Muller and Prime Minister Kaja Kallas responded to MPs’ interpellations concerning the connection between European banking and climate policy in the Riigikogu on Monday. Muller [..]

Estonia

Estonian startups invited to apply for funding for green technology development

April 4, 2024

The Estonian Environmental Investment Center (KIK) opened a call for applications on Wednesday to support the development of innovative green technologies, and the funding will assist in developing technologies that [..]

Estonia

Past winter in Estonia was colder, with less snowfall than long-term average

March 7, 2024

The winter of 2023/2024 in Estonia was colder than normal, but with less sunshine and precipitation, the Estonian Environment Agency said on Wednesday. In most parts of the country, winter [..]

Latvia

Installation of new gas heating systems in Riga will no longer be approved from 2026

February 14, 2024

The installation of new gas heating equipment in Riga will no longer be approved from 2026, according to the regulations approved today by the Housing and Environment Committee of the [..]

Interviews

Dr. Adelle Thomas: Loss and damage: A moral imperative to act

October 31, 2023

Dr. Adelle Thomas is a lead author of the IPCC’s 2022 report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the Special Report on 1.5°C. The world is falling short on reducing [..]

Estonia

Estonia: Storm predicted to raise sea level above critical at Pirita

October 6, 2023

Starting from Friday evening, winds will strengthen to storm force in Estonia, breaking trees and potentially disrupting ferry services, and the sea level at Pirita, Tallinn, will exceed the critical [..]