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Vienna fails to meet clean air targets
Vienna exceeded EU limits for the type of particulate pollution mostly caused by vehicle exhaust fumes last year and now faces stiff penalties from the EU for breaching air quality legislation.
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More than 10,000 people have been stopped and questioned by the Vienna police force during its special patrols on the city
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Stadthalle Hotel gets zero carbon footprint
A Vienna hotel claims to be the first in the city, and possibly the first such in the world, to have a zero carbon footprint
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Vienna had the second highest level of toxic fine dust air pollution in Austria in 2008. The World Health Organisation (WHO) associates fine-dust pollution with 2,400 premature deaths, 55,00 asthma at...
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Two workshops in Vienna have begun turning garbage into valuable designer items which are now on sale in the
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Poster campaign to combat dog waste.
Following the success of the petition Parents Against Dog Droppings, signed by more than 157,000 Viennese citizens earlier this year, the city council has launched a poster campaign aimed at convincin...
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The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud is being celebrated in Vienna, where the father of psychoanalysis lived and worked for eight decades. A special exhibition entitled The Couch. Think...
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Austrias capital goes GMO-free.
At a recent conference in Rennes, northern France, Vienna joined the growing alliance of regions in Europe that are against genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The alliance, which was launched in F...
