The Drisla file: Garbage smells of corruption
author: Goran Lefkov (The story is supported within the NED project “Promoting accountability through investigative reporting”) Tag Archives: pollution
author: Goran Lefkov (The story is supported within the NED project “Promoting accountability through investigative reporting”) Institutions boost pollution
author: Goran Lefkov (The story was is supported within the NED project “Promoting accountability through investigative reporting”) THE OLDEST LAKE IN EUROPE IN SERIOUS DANGER
author: Goran Lefkov With the oldest and deepest lake in Europe, Ohrid is the most attractive destination for foreign tourists. With its natural beauty and cultural and historical monuments, Ohrid is known as the pearl of the Balkans. The nature has painstakingly been creating Ohrid’s beauty for millions of years. Dozens of endemic species that can be found only here and nowhere else in the world live in the... Pollution: Skopje is closing to Beijing
(The story has been supported by the National Endowment for democracy project “Raising Awareness About Corruption through Investigative Reporting”) SCOOP’s new series – UPCLOSE: The price of pollution
Center for investigative journalism SCOOP Macedonia continues with UPCLOSE, a series of short documentary films which last year started big buzz in Macedonian public, especially the very first one, on student standard’s topic. This time UPCLOSE is focused on the biggest polluters in Macedonia. This will be also a series of short documentaries with exceptional quality. Despite journalistic investigation, viewers will enjoy great visualization and special effects. Watch us... The air and soil in Veles permanently “rich” with metals
author: Bojan Shashevski Air, soil and vegetables in Veles are completely contaminated with toxic metals! The recent research of the prominent professor Trajche Stafilov’s team from the Institute of Chemistry has shown devastating results – people around the closed lead and zinc smelter and the unprotected dump breathe air that is over 10 times more polluted than allowed, and eat vegetables rich with heavy metals. The results confirm... Pollution does not stop, every year 4,500 new cancer cases!
Middle-aged Vera Tushevska daily goes shopping in the small improvised market with a view of the former giant industrial complex Zelezara, where ore used to be melted, but today, she says, they do not know what is produced. She has been living in this settlement since 1973, but there has never been so much stink as now. “There used to be smoke, but it did not stink. We knew... 