Environmental Protection Agency

On Monday, air pollution with particulate matter (PM10) was still high in many cities of Lithuania.

Environmental authorities will look into how much pollutants were released into the environment after a fire broke out at a car scrap yard in Vilnius on Wednesday.

An ecological incident in Latvia, when untreated wastewater spilled into the Baltic Sea, does not pose a threat to Lithuania’s beaches, says Palanga Mayor Šarūnas Vaitkus.

The Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea did not have "good chemical status" last year, according to a report published by Lithuania's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The die-off of fish and other aquatic organisms in the River Nemunas near Grodno in Belarus was triggered by natural and climatic causes, Belarus Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection said in a response to the note earlier issued by Lithuania.

Experts from Lithuania's Environmental Protection Agency have taken water samples from the River Nemunas near the southern cities of Alytus and Druskininkai in response to reports of large numbers of dead fish and other animals in the river near Grodno in Belarus.

Pieces of a substance similar to paraffin wax that were found washed up on Lithuania's beaches last week apparently came from Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, the Environmental Protection Department said on Monday.

A temporary group of the Lithuanian Seimas will on Wednesday discuss the country's preparation for a possible nuclear or radiological accident at the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction close to the Lithuanian border.

Lithuania's Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its permit for the Francesko Jung circus from the Czech Republic to publicly exhibit its elephant.

Lithuanian border guards and police are helping environmental protection officers in their efforts to find the killers of more than 20 red-listed seals found dead on the country's Baltic Sea coast this year, the Environment Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Vilnius Regional Environmental Protection Department has turned to court with a claim for compensation of 630,000 euros in damage caused by the December 2016 sewage spill in central Vilnius, which resulted in spillage of 46,000 cubic meters of untreated wastewater into the River Neris.

As Europe is looking into the causes of a radioactive iodine leak that has been detected in different countries in recent weeks, a Lithuanian official says that no traces of iodine have been recorded in Lithuania, adding that the levels of radioactive iodine detected across Europe pose no threat to ...