An accident at a sewage treatment plant in western Latvia has caused a large spill of untreated waste into the Baltic Sea, leading to the closure of beaches and a ban on swimming, local ...

However, Latvia still struggles with environmental problems. Its per-capita carbon intensity increased from 2000-10; it has little renewable energy to speak of and is largely dependent on Russian gas; ...

Scientists mapping plastic pollution on the Latvian and Lithuanian coastline have discovered high levels of dangerous bacteria, called vibrio. A project largely funded by the European Cohesion ...

Generation Change Gederts Gelzis, Riga, Latvia 08/13/2014 August 13, 2014. Uldis Mors organizes group expeditions along Latvia's Baltic Sea coast. He hopes to raise awareness about the level of ...

European Union president Latvia will push ahead with a law to clamp down on air pollution after the European Commission's plan to withdraw the proposals was rejected by many lawmakers.

Worryingly high levels of dangerous bacteria, called, vibrio, are among the findings of Latvian and Lithuanian scientists. It's a study of marine litter on their shared coastline and part of a ...

A previously developed watershed-based operational model is now being extended and tested in the applied research project in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, and Latvia. Häme University of Applied Sciences ...

Environmentalist Uldis Mors organizes group expeditions along Latvia's Baltic Sea coastline. He hopes to raise awareness about the level of pollution in the sea, and persuade the public that his ...