EU requests bigger money contributions to the fight against the air pollution in North Macedonia
European Commission's latest report about North Macedonia and its reforms clearly stresses that North Macedonia should increase the assetsthat are allocated on national and local levels to decrease air pollution.
"...limited implemention and ressources, weak inter-sectoral cooperation and coordination between central and local authorities limits...
Slag from Veles smelting plant exported to Turkey, soon it will also be exported to Albania
The slag from the former smelting plant in Veles is being exported to Turkey, and by the end of this year, it will be exported to Albania as well. At the moment, concessionaire "Keps Mount Group" is negotiating with a company in Turkey to...
Environmental tax on fuel stranded in Parliament of North Macedonia, number of diesel vehicles has risen by 160.000 in 8 years
Notwithstanding the announcements that the environmental tax on fuels will be implemented in North Macedonia from the 1st of July, until today the tax still wasn't introduced and there are no announcements that an additional rise in fuel prices will happen in the forthcoming...
Skopje Zoo’s new attraction: Baby marmoset grew big enough to pose for pictures and “groom” its parents
When it was born on the 26th of September, the pygmy marmoset baby was small as a fingernail. The employees at the Skopje Zoo said then that it is so small that it cannot even be seen on camera. Now it has grown...
North Macedonia Health Minister: The acquisition of ‘painless’ glucose monitors has started
Two days after Meta.mk's published its interview with the 16-year-old Mia Chichkarikj which suffers from juvenile diabetes Type 1, Venko Filipche, the health minister of North Macedonia announced acquisition of 'painless' glucose monitors. That was what Mia had requested in the interview when she...
We need ‘painless’ glucose monitors, says Mia Chichkarikj, a 16 year old diabetes patient
Mia Chichkarikj is 16-years old third-year student in the Orce Nikolov Gymnasium in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. What makes this young girl a true fighter is that every day for the past 10 years, she has been facing the challenges that Type...
Eleven-year-old Aussie’s online magazine showcases women’s sports
In another feel-good story from down under, Australian youth is leading the way. An eleven-year-old Australian from Sydney has created an online magazine about international women's sports.
Abbie decided on this venture after she discovered there were no sports magazines for girls. So she created...
Forests in North Macedonia under attack, forest ranger service understaffed and underequipped
North Macedonia must invest in the prevention of wildfires and illegal logging, equip the firefighting brigades with new vehicles and more personnel, modernize the Forest Rangers and the forestry units and introduce new technologies for the protection of the forests. These were the main...
The 6th episode of “Shorcut” focussing on the conditions for riding a bicycle in Skopje
The youth show "Shortcut" this week presents the latest most important news and events which impact the young people.
In the latest episode with are informing about the start of the new academic year, which, like the previous one, started in pandemic conditions. We are...
Animal activists fear that lion cub Simba is going to be euthanized
More than 10 days have passed since Meta.mk, reacted on animal activist Tina Mickovska's plea and revealed that Simba the lion cub has ended in Kumanovo. Still, even though the police has detained S.A. (31) from Kumanovo, on charges of "unauthorized hunting, keeping, and...
North Macedonia bans single-use plastic in protected areas from 1st of December, plastic bags prices will rise at least sevenfold
All single-use plastic in the catering establishment in the protected areas in North Macedonia will be banned from the 1st of December 2021, announced the Minister of Environment Naser Nuredini in a press conference about the new package of laws on waste.
Nuredini stressed that...
State Environmental Inspectorate didn’t find lion cub in Skopje hotel
In coordination with the competent institutions, the inspectors from the State Environmental Inspectorate on Friday evening searched the Park Hotel located on the bank of the Vardar River in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.
The inspector who was conducting the inspection at this 5-star...
Threats for animal rights activist in North Macedonia who alarmed about lion cub smuggling
Animal rights activist Tina Mickovska revealed that she is receiving death threats after she publicly denounced the trend of posting photographs of the lion cub Simba on the social networks by users from North Macedonia and called the authorities to act.
On her Facebook profile...
Slag from melting scrap iron in “Makstil” used as building material in North Macedonia
The dross produced in the process of melting scrap iron in the "Makstil" smelter in Skopje, North Macedonia, will be used as material for subbases of new roads and streets and as partial substitute for cement in the production of concrete blocks.
This innovation which...
Skopje’s Drisla landfill numb about the plant for secondary waste selection and recycling
This year, the Skopje landfill Drisla will receive an autoclave, or a machine for treatment of the medical waste, but also an air quality measurement station. The landfill received €800,000 in an IPA project for the recycling of construction waste. But the projects for...
EU is waiting, municipalities in North Macedonia have been deliberating for 7 months who will manage the regional landfill in Sveti Nikole
The construction of the first landfill in North Macedonia where the waste will be deposited and recycled in accordance with the European standards is long overdue. Even though the municipality of Sveti Nikole in February agreed to the establishment of the Public inter regional...
The world is banning the plastic bags, while we still discuss if their prices should go up!
While the world is completely banning the single-use plastic and the plastic bags, in North Macedonia there are still debates whether to increase their prices in the supermarkets and if that can help to decrease the waste production. Civic organizations call the municipalities to...
Reviving the Cree and Ojibwe languages of Manitoba, Canada with TikTok
As a child growing up in the Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada, Sharissa Neault would hear the Ininímowin (Cree) language from her grandparents. However, the language was not passed on her mother and consequently not to Neault either. “As I grew...
Artificial intelligence has already arrived, we only need to know how to reap the benefits
We should not be afraid that artificial intelligence (AI) could completely replace man, because it can only be a tool that will make some things easier. Just as we all now use a computer and it helps us, so AI can be a tool...
Some relatively new platform video games
We will browse through a few platform video games that could keep your attention, some of whom were chosen as the best in the genre, most of them are relatively newer games, but that truly doesn't matter when it comes to platform video games,...
