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Travelling to Greece this summer? Your hotel swimming pool could be filled with seawater
• 4:03 PM
5 min
As tourism puts pressure on freshwater resources, Greece is considering other options to keep hotel pools filled.
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Global GDP could be halved without urgent action on climate change, report warns
• 4:00 PM
6 min
People are already impacted by food system shocks, water insecurity, heat stress and infectious diseases. If unchecked, mass mortality, mass displacement, severe economic contraction and conflict become more likely.
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‘A bonfire of climate regulations’: What Trump’s first days in office could mean for the environment
• 3:17 PM
18 min
As Donald Trump prepares to become the 47th president of the United States, what will his first actions be on climate and energy, and how will they impact the rest of the world?
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Germany funds partnership with Interpol, WWF to tackle environmental crime
• 10:54 AM
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With environmentally destructive activities such as illegal logging and waste disposal among the largest areas of organised crime worldwide, Berlin is bankrolling a collaboration between civil society and the international police body Interpol.
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Thursday, january 16, 2025
A ‘Pandora’s box of ills’: What are the UN chief's climate priorities for 2025?
• 3:02 PM
8 min
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reminded the world that every year since the Paris Agreement has been the hottest on record.
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Car industry leader renews plea for leniency over failure to meet CO2 standards
• 2:45 PM
4 min
European auto industry’s new lobbyist-in-chief says carmakers have no chance of complying with EU environmental law this year, and renews call for emergency relief from impending fines that could run to billions of euros.
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Greenland lawmaker touts stronger EU role in island's critical raw materials
• 10:53 AM
6 min
Twenty-five of the 34 minerals found in Greenland were identified as "critical raw materials" in a European Commission study in 2023.
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Wednesday, january 15, 2025
Europe's noisy cities raise concerns from EU auditors
• 4:26 PM
5 min
Loud urban environments can have ruinous health impacts from sleep disturbance to cardiovascular problems, but lawmakers and local authorities are failing to take the issue as seriously as air pollution, the European Court of Auditors has warned.
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This Italian climate researcher was fired for refusing to fly - now he’s won compensation
• 3:12 PM
6 min
The researcher hopes his case will inspire others to try flight-free travel.
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Italy and Albania agree to share wind and solar energy across the sea - how will it work?
• 1:03 PM
4 min
The UAE is lending technology and expertise for the project.
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Chemicals industry accused of pre-emptive strike against incoming PFAS ban
• 9:51 AM
8 min
Investigations by European NGOs and newspapers point to a concerted industry campaign to limit incoming EU restrictions on PFAS, toxic substances dubbed ‘forever chemicals’ because they can persist for centuries in the environment. The European Commission
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Tuesday, january 14, 2025
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LA fires: 1000s had insurance cancelled in the months before the disaster - what's the climate link?
• 4:38 PM
11 min
As the scale of uninsured losses from the Los Angeles wildfires becomes clear, are insurers ready for a climate change-induced ‘new normal’?
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Unions, green groups fear sweeping deregulation as EU pursues competitiveness agenda
• 4:22 PM
4 min
Trade union leaders and environmental campaigners are among over 250 groups warning against a bonfire of red tape as the second von der Leyen commission presses on with its core goal of shielding European industry from US and Chinese competition.
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How the heartland of Poland’s coal industry is ditching fossil fuels - without sacrificing jobs
• 3:05 PM
5 min
Katowice hopes to serve as an example to other industrial cities wanting to move away from fossil fuels.
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Friday, january 10, 2025
‘Pollutocrat Day’: The richest 1% have already burnt through their annual carbon budget, Oxfam says
• 6:05 AM
5 min
Climate campaigners are calling for wealth taxes on the top 1 per cent to limit their pollution and pay for damages.
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'The future is in our hands’: Climate scientists share solutions as 2024 declared hottest on record
• 4:04 AM
17 min
Experts say the world is now ‘teetering on the edge’ of passing the crucial 1.5°C warming limit.
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Thursday, january 9, 2025
California wildfires: Why are they happening and is climate change to blame?
• 10:57 AM
8 min
A cocktail of extreme weather events is turning California’s wildfires into a deadly urban conflagration.
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Poland seeks to break EU deadlock on GMO deregulation
• 8:56 AM
4 min
After 18 months, governments have yet to agree on when a new class of genetically modified crops can be treated as equivalent to conventional strains, and whether producers should be granted monopoly rights through patents.
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Wednesday, january 8, 2025
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UK scraps plan to ban gas boilers by 2035: Can the government boost heat pump uptake?
• 3:41 PM
7 min
The UK is lagging behind the rest of Europe with around two heat pumps per 1000 households.
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‘An epic ocean victory’: Can Biden’s new offshore drilling ban outlast Trump?
• 11:52 AM
11 min
Days before leaving office, Biden has made a move that environmental groups are “thrilled and thankful’’ for.
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‘If the oceans die, we die’: Anti-whaler Paul Watson on activism, prison and not giving up hope
• 6:03 AM
14 min
Watson has been fighting for the rights of whales and the wider environment for more than 50 years - and is showing no signs of slowing down.
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Monday, january 6, 2025
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The UK has the fewest heat pumps in Europe, but the government hopes myth-dispelling can change that
• 3:30 PM
5 min
Heat pumps are common features in houses in countries like Norway and Sweden but haven’t taken off yet in the UK.
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‘An ecological disaster’: Russia deals with aftermath of massive fuel oil spill
• 2:02 PM
3 min
Thousands are attempting to help lessen the damage, but some volunteers say the government is not doing enough to help.
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Tuesday, december 31, 2024
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Germany and Spain experienced some of the world’s costliest climate disasters in 2024
• 3:46 PM
7 min
A new report by Christian Aid found that Europe accounted for three of the top 10 costliest climate disasters in 2024.
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Amazon wildfires and droughts are ‘ominous indicators’ of a long-feared tipping point
• 3:00 PM
9 min
Governments have historically viewed the Amazon as an area to be exploited, with little regard for sustainability or the rights of its Indigenous peoples.
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Electric wallpaper and carbon-sequestering cows: Positive environmental stories from 2024
• 7:36 AM
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Climate anxiety is very real, but these good news stories from 2024 prove there is hope for our planet.
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Saturday, december 28, 2024
From a president to an activist grandmother, all our unsung heroes for the climate in 2024 are women
• 9:02 AM
24 min
Euronews Green celebrates our year’s top unsung heroes of the climate movement - and all of them are women!
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UK zoo breeds and releases endangered snail onto Atlantic island
• 12:45 AM
3 min
Two species of tiny Desertas Islands snails have been bred at the UK’s Chester Zoo and released back into the wild onto one of Portugal's islands.
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Friday, december 27, 2024
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US pledges 61% emissions cut by 2035 as Biden bows out
• 4:07 PM
5 min
The US has become only the fourth country to put a new emissions reduction pledge on the table ahead of a February 2025 deadline under the Paris Agreement to halt global temperature rise – but with president-elect Trump due to take office next month, its
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Montana Supreme Court locks horns with Republicans over landmark climate ruling
• 3:28 PM
7 min
The Chief Justice used a classic parental comeback to uphold the ruling, in another blow to state-backed fossil fuel industries.
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Wednesday, december 18, 2024
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Governments support strict controls on maritime transport of plastic pellets
• 2:14 PM
4 min
In the wake of the spillage of some 26 tonnes of tiny plastic pellets which washed up on Spanish beaches a year ago, environment ministers have agreed that minimum standards and monitoring should apply to shippers operating in EU waters.
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Oil and gas majors demand massive public support for carbon capture
• 1:52 PM
9 min
The clock is ticking on a legal deadline for the petroleum industry to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) infrastructure – a technology it has championed for decades – at an unprecedented scale by the end of the decade.
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From renewables to fossil fuels in Europe: How does your country generate electricity?
• 6:15 AM
4 min
Nuclear and coal power in the EU have decreased significantly over the last 20 years, with nuclear dropping to 23% and coal to 12%, while renewables have risen.
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Sunday, december 15, 2024
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France’s political instability deepens opposition to Mercosur trade agreement
• 2:23 PM
5 min
French opposition to the Mercosur agreement concluded by the European Commission on 6 December has been trenchant, but its domestic political situation is feeding the stance.
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Child labour: Nigeria’s lithium mines reveal the dark side of our electric future
• 5:14 AM
10 min
Children as young as five-years-old were found to be working in one illegal mine.
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Thursday, december 12, 2024
Climate clampdown: Research shows UK and Norway most likely to arrest protesters
• 4:48 PM
14 min
New powers for police have seen an increased number of climate protest-related arrests.
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‘Silent enablers’: The European shipping companies moving deforestation-linked beef around the world
• 3:05 PM
13 min
The loss of rainforest three times the size of London can be linked to these five European shipping companies.
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Ukraine’s energy crisis holds a lesson for EU, Polish minister says
• 1:35 PM
5 min
As Russia deliberately targets energy infrastructure, war-torn Ukraine is inadvertently showing Europe how it can boost security and resilience, a senior Polish energy official says, as Warsaw prepares to take over the EU Council presidency.
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Wednesday, december 11, 2024
Are solar farms destroyed during storms? Experts debunk the myth that panels can’t handle the wind
• 5:11 PM
6 min
No power infrastructure is immune from extreme weather, but solar has some advantages and means to improve.
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Conservatives demand ‘urgent’ action as EU car makers fall behind in race to electrify
• 3:33 PM
4 min
This week has seen a ratcheting up of pressure from the political right and car industry, which want the EU to ease regulations designed to cut emissions and promote a switch to electric vehicles.
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The Arctic tundra has transformed from carbon sink to carbon source, report finds
• 3:02 PM
5 min
Dramatic changes in the Arctic are being driven by high temperatures and intense wildfires.
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Tuesday, december 10, 2024
‘Redefining life on Earth’: Three-quarters of the world’s land is permanently drying up
• 3:31 PM
11 min
A UN summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hopes to address global desertification - once-fertile lands turning arid.
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New EU air quality rules: Air pollution still the top environmental health risk to Europeans
• 3:00 PM
8 min
Air pollution is also hurting ecosystems, resulting in lower crop yields.
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Governments remain deadlocked over energy taxation reform
• 1:21 PM
3 min
The European Commission wants to hike levies on fossil fuels as it seeks to radically cut carbon emissions — but EU members remain divided even if a proposed kerosene levy seems to have fallen by the wayside.
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Monday, december 9, 2024
With all eyes on the Paris Notre-Dame reopening, the cathedral’s saviour is revealed as the jay bird
• 3:30 PM
7 min
Two billion acorns are planted in the ground by jays each year in French forests.
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2024 will be the hottest year on record and the first year above 1.5C, scientists confirm
• 6:02 AM
3 min
Last month was the 16th out of the last 17 where global average temperatures have exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times.
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Saturday, december 7, 2024
