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Foreign ambassadors urge Estonia to do more about the HIV epidemic

The American, British and Finnish ambassadors to Estonia urge the parliament to do more about the spread of HIV in the country, saying the situation of the epidemic is “gravely concerning”. The US ambassador, James D Melville, Jr, the British ambassador, Chris Holtby, and the Finnish ambassador, Kristi Narinen, have written an open letter to

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An Estonian oak, called “Tamme-Lauri”, shortlisted for the European Tree of the Year

For the second year in a row, a tree in Estonia is competing for the title of the “European tree of the year”. An oak, called “Tamme-Lauri”, the thickest and oldest tree in Estonia, is “competing” with 12 other trees from all over Europe in a contest that has been running since 2011. The purpose of

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Estonian clean-up initiative aims to engage 150 countries in 2018

The Estonian global clean-up initiative, Let’s Do It! World, aims to bring together 150 countries all over the world for a massive waste clean-up on 8 September 2018; to kickstart the event, the organisers have launched a crowdfunding campaign. “With our crowdfunding campaign, we’re taking the first real step to make this big plan a

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Estonia is among the 10 greenest countries in the world

According to the 2016 Environmental Performance Index, which ranks 180 countries on how they protect human health and ecosystems, Estonia is the eighth most environmentally friendly country on Earth. The annual Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is compiled by researchers from the US-based Yale University and Columbia University. The index ranks how well countries perform on

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Let’s Do It! World clean-up engaged over 3.4M volunteers to clean up waste last year

Last year, the civic-led waste clean-ups, part of the Let’s Do It! World campaign, engaged 3.4 million people in 34 countries who altogether collected about 45,000 tonnes of illegal waste. Albania, Kenya, Libya, Macedonia, the Philippines, Russia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Romania, Colombia, Kosovo, Finland, Belarus, Hungary, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Malta, Estonia, Greece, Cyprus,

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