Vrijdag 2 mei 2025
Donderdag 1 mei 2025
Dinsdag 29 april 2025
EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy
• 16:21
4 min
Environment ministers discussed on Tuesday how to counter disinformation and propaganda targeting the EU's climate and environmental policies, less than 24 hours after a catastrophic power cut in Spain and Portugal gave wing to precisely the kind of fake
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Fact check: Did wind and solar really cause Portugal and Spain’s mass blackout?
• 13:35
10 min
Investigations are ongoing into what went wrong with the electricity system, which impacted some 60 million people.
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Maandag 28 april 2025
European Commission questions legality of US seabed mining plans
• 16:53
6 min
The EU executive “deeply regrets” President Trump’s decision to promote deep-sea mining in international waters, joining a chorus of voices questioning the legality of Washington’s latest bid to secure supplies of lithium, rare earth metals and other crit
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Landmark ruling should encourage more cities to ban fossil fuel ads, campaigners urge
• 14:33
5 min
The general health interests of citizens are worth more than the commercial interests of advertisers, the court said.
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Sycamore Gap: Two men charged with felling beloved tree go on trial in northern England
• 10:43
7 min
The tree was far from Britain’s biggest or oldest, but when it was mysteriously felled in 2023, it caused disbelief and heartbreak for many across the country.
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Zondag 27 april 2025
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Vrijdag 25 april 2025
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Scientists say they can now calculate the trillions in climate damage caused by fossil fuel giants
• 08:23
6 min
Experts believe the research could help bolster climate laws and make polluters pay for their role in global warming.
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‘Fishing in the dark’: Spain accused of turning a blind eye to illegal fishing in West Africa
• 05:10
7 min
NGOs claim Spanish authorities are turning a blind eye to their fleets' activities in Senegal and Guinea Bissau.
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Woensdag 23 april 2025
Dinsdag 22 april 2025
Why fossil fuels are like renting a home - and solar panel imports soon pay for themselves
• 15:30
6 min
Ahead of the IEA’s summit on energy security this week, analysts are emphasising the benefits of solar and wind.
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Firefighters battle massive fire at plastic landfill in central Czech Republic
• 13:14
1 min
Firefighters battled a massive fire at a plastic landfill in the Czech Republic on Monday, covering an area of at least 450 square metres.
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Maandag 21 april 2025
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Dinsdag 15 april 2025
World’s most elusive squid? Scientists just filmed colossal squid alive for the first time
• 20:04
5 min
In January, the research team also captured a glacial glass squid on camera for the first time.
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Renewed concern over direction of EU climate policy in wake of alarming 2024 weather report
• 15:55
5 min
Despite the ever increasing body of scientific and real-life evidence for the accelerating pace of global temperature rise, climate campaigners fear the EU executive is looking at ways to introduce loopholes before proposing a target to reduce Europe’s ca
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Maandag 14 april 2025
‘Fossil fuels in another form’: Plastic recycling rate stagnates at under 10%, report finds
• 14:36
6 min
Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates.
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Pumped up pollen: How climate change could be making your seasonal allergies worse
• 14:18
4 min
Studies that link worsening allergies in Europe with climate change and elevated concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Elephant retirement home: This zoo in Spain is helping elderly animals to age gracefully
• 08:00
8 min
Ageing animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild are being given specialised geriatric care at Barcelona Zoo.
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Zaterdag 12 april 2025
Vrijdag 11 april 2025
Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI ‘offset’ its own, growing emissions?
• 15:02
10 min
Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.
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La Niña has ended after three weak months. What does it mean for Europe’s weather?
• 14:01
4 min
Longer-term weather forecasts are more difficult to establish when the phenomenon is not present.
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'Make America's showers great again': Trump reverses US water and energy saving measures
• 07:20
4 min
The standards were intended to make dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines and toilets use less energy and water.
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Donderdag 10 april 2025
‘One big backlash’: Why is a green shareholder activist group pausing its climate resolutions?
• 15:24
4 min
A “changing political landscape” and global trade tensions are partly to blame, according to the Netherlands-based group.
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Not just social media: Report claims mainstream French media is spreading climate disinformation
• 14:32
9 min
A new study discovered dozens of climate lies being shared in French media, from renewable energy to EVs.
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EU agrees to restore soils to health but stops short of setting legal targets
• 14:30
3 min
The state of Europe’s soil is often overlooked in the battle against climate change and ecosystem destruction, and in efforts to limit flooding and ensure food security. The EU has agreed to restore its heavily degraded land by 2050, but environmentalists
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Ditching fossil fuels would improve energy security for most countries, new research finds
• 14:24
4 min
Trade-related risks to energy security decline on average by 19 per cent in net-zero scenarios.
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Woensdag 9 april 2025
Commission overruled as lawmakers extend microplastic controls to shipping
• 16:28
3 min
After a series of high profile spills at sea, MEPs and governments have agreed that new pollution controls must extend to maritime freight, despite opposition from the EU executive.
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European premiere of Meryl Streep narrated film urging nature restoration
• 15:38
7 min
Filmmaker Matthew Brady tells Euronews why he wanted to bring a message of hope to the big screen – and how he persuaded Hollywood royalty Meryl Streep to narrate his award-winning documentary ‘Escape from Extinction – Rewilding’.
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Nations debate historic first global carbon tax as shipping faces pressure to cut emissions
• 15:01
9 min
As nations of the world debate a historic global carbon tax on shipping, the US has waded in with threats of retaliation.
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Europe’s largest meteorite impact crater is pumping out methane and nobody knows why
• 14:02
7 min
Methane emissions in Sweden’s Siljan Ring lakes are up to 300 times higher than expected, raising climate concerns.
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Lego says new factory in Vietnam will make toys without without adding emissions to the atmosphere
• 11:58
14 min
It is hoped that the factory’s 12,400 solar panels and energy storage system will help set a precedent for more sustainable manufacturing in Vietnam.
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‘Their determination is heroic’: Portuguese youth mount fresh climate lawsuit against government
• 04:02
7 min
A new lawsuit is being built to challenge the Portuguese government’s climate targets and plans by young veterans of climate litigation.
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Dinsdag 8 april 2025
MEPs reject renewed attacks on NGO funding in EU budget review
• 16:35
4 min
A parliamentary committee has voted down a raft of amendments from right-wing lawmakers seeking to incorporate sharp criticism of EU funding for non-governmental organisations into the discharge of the bloc’s 2023 budget.
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Meet Zen, the border collie teaching rescue dogs as climate change compounds avalanche risks
• 14:03
17 min
When things go wrong, the only weapon Alpine rescuers have to search is dogs.
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World surpasses 40% clean electricity with Europe leading as a 'solar superpower'
• 04:01
10 min
Heatwaves, AI and data centres are driving electricity demand to new heights. But clean power is up to the challenge, a new global review finds.
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Maandag 7 april 2025
European Commission slammed for 'opaque' funding of NGOs
• 15:27
6 min
The EU’s audit office has demanded greater transparency over EU funding contracts for non-profit civil society organisations, despite finding no evidence during a year-long probe of any wrongdoing by either NGOs or European Commission officials.
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Scientists say human-caused pollution may be masking the true extent of climate warming
• 14:30
3 min
The findings will help develop more accurate climate models to predict future climate change.
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Meet the teen duo that won this year’s Earth Prize Europe with their groundbreaking clean water tech
• 10:48
9 min
The European winners hope they can scale up their invention to tackle water pollution at its source.
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Zondag 6 april 2025
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Vrijdag 4 april 2025
Going round in circularity: Most Brits confused by sustainability language, survey finds
• 14:32
5 min
A third of consumers admitted to ignoring what brands say about sustainability because it confuses them.
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We know next to nothing about 99 per cent of the world’s insects: Here’s why that’s a problem
• 14:03
5 min
While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect the rest.
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Donderdag 3 april 2025
Greens, socialists hope centrist alliance will limit scale of EU deregulation
• 17:00
4 min
The European Parliament has voted to delay key rules on corporate sustainability pending a reduction of their scope, on the same day the Trump administration appeared to be targeting EU regulatory standards with a punitive 20% import tariff.
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Beryl, Helene and Milton join list of nearly 100 hurricane names so deadly they won’t be repeated
• 15:12
7 min
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the ninth in a row with above average activity, the WMO says.
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Greece storms were made wetter and more destructive by climate change, study finds
• 14:38
3 min
The research found that storms are up to 15 per cent wetter now than they would have been in the past.
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Woensdag 2 april 2025
The Arctic’s glaciers are retreating, exposing new coastlines that could trigger tsunamis
• 15:00
4 min
The unstable new coastline poses safety risks for the tourists that flock to coastal glacial areas for their beauty and abundant wildlife.
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Commission denies singling out NGOs in green funding row
• 14:30
6 min
After right-wing parties in the European Parliament narrowly lost a symbolic vote on blocking funding for non-profit groups through the LIFE Programme, the European Commission issued a detailed statement that has done little to reassure critics who see th
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Dead hedgehogs reveal PCB pollution still haunts the environment decades after ban
• 14:14
8 min
Researchers have found hedgehog bodies are full of environmental pollutants, including some of the most hazardous to human health.
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'The last form of protest I have': German priest prefers prison over €500 fine for climate activism
• 07:29
6 min
Rev. Jörg Alt and about 40 other activists blocked traffic in Nuremberg by gluing their hands to a street in front of the city's train station.
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Dinsdag 1 april 2025
Türkiye’s 20,000-year-old glaciers are disappearing. Scientists want to close them to visitors
• 14:30
4 min
The remaining glacial area in the Cilo Mountains has been damaged and degraded, scientists say.
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MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs
• 11:49
5 min
In a knife edge vote, the European Parliament’s environment committee voted down an objection jointly tabled by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) against continued funding of civil society campaign groups.
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Finland ‘ahead of schedule’ on coal phase out as Helsinki’s Salmisaari plant closes
• 05:04
7 min
Wind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.
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Zaterdag 29 maart 2025
