Dear friends of the sea, this year we’re once again inviting you to join us in cleaning up the Slovenian coastline as part of the 14th ‘ČISTA OBALA’ clean-up campaign.
22 March, World Water Day, serves as a reminder of the exceptional importance of water. It is an opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges we face in ensuring access to clean water, and of the crucial role that sustainable water management plays in achieving this goal.
IWRS is participating in the CRP call “Our food, countryside and natural resources in 2022” in the project “Impact of environmental stress on the health and growth of bivalve molluscs and improvements in breeding practices in the face of microplastics and climate change”.
The Slovenian Water Institute is participating in the project ‘The impact of environmental stress on the health and growth of mussels, and improvements to farming practices in response to microplastics and climate change’.
Dear friends of the sea, this year we’re once again inviting you to join us in cleaning up the Slovenian coastline as part of the 13th ‘ČISTA OBALA’ clean-up campaign.
Dear friends of the sea, this year we’re once again inviting you to join us in cleaning up the Slovenian coastline as part of the 13th ‘ČISTA OBALA’ clean-up campaign.
On Friday, 22 April 2022, to mark World Earth Day, we highlighted the issue of plastic waste and microplastics in the environment. The presentation took place at the Postojna School Centre, and the talk was attended by around 60 participants. The event was organised by the Postojna–Cerknica Rotary Club.
On 8 December, as part of Science Month, the closing event for the ‘Plastic Pirates’ project took place – Let’s Go Europe – which, over the course of a year, introduced more than 1,400 pupils and students from 100 Slovenian schools to citizen science and the issue of plastic pollution. The young people assisted scientists in their pioneering work – the large-scale sampling of microplastics in Slovenian rivers, which, according to current results, has revealed that more than three-quarters of the rivers analysed are contaminated.
The Slovenian Water Institute presented its microplastic sampling in rivers on the programme *Ugriznimo znanost*. Dr Manca Kovač Viršek appeared on the programme to discuss the issue of microplastics and a new method for sampling microplastics in rivers, which was developed at the Slovenian Water Institute.