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UK government to ban use of ‘slave labour’ solar panels by new state-owned energy company

Campaigners have warned that Chinese slave labour is widespread throughout the renewables sector.

Tisdag 22 april 2025

Why fossil fuels are like renting a home - and solar panel imports soon pay for themselves

Ahead of the IEA’s summit on energy security this week, analysts are emphasising the benefits of solar and wind.

Firefighters battle massive fire at plastic landfill in central Czech Republic

Firefighters battled a massive fire at a plastic landfill in the Czech Republic on Monday, covering an area of at least 450 square metres.

Måndag 21 april 2025

Science, compassion and Catholicism: How Pope Francis helped inspire global climate action

Pope Francis's legacy includes efforts to open the eyes of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to the dangers of climate change.

Fredag 18 april 2025

Climate change is redrawing the global wine map. Here’s what it means for your future vintages

England already has a reputation for great sparkling wines, as climate change shifts the focus of wine production.

Torsdag 17 april 2025

On thin ice: Why this legendary Dutch skating race may never happen again

In the 20th century, the Elfstedentocht could be expected to take place every four to five years.

Onsdag 16 april 2025

Indigenous communities push back against Peru law change that could accelerate Amazon deforestation

It is being “falsely arguing” that the amendments are necessary to comply with the EU’s new forest regulations, campaigners warn.

Tisdag 15 april 2025

World’s most elusive squid? Scientists just filmed colossal squid alive for the first time

In January, the research team also captured a glacial glass squid on camera for the first time.

Renewed concern over direction of EU climate policy in wake of alarming 2024 weather report

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

Måndag 14 april 2025

‘Fossil fuels in another form’: Plastic recycling rate stagnates at under 10%, report finds

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates.

Pumped up pollen: How climate change could be making your seasonal allergies worse

Studies that link worsening allergies in Europe with climate change and elevated concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Elephant retirement home: This zoo in Spain is helping elderly animals to age gracefully

Ageing animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild are being given specialised geriatric care at Barcelona Zoo.

Lördag 12 april 2025

From airlines to trainers, this German NGO stops companies from greenwashing products

For three years, DUH has been taking companies to court for dubious advertising claims about climate neutrality.

Fredag 11 april 2025

Climate champion or catastrophe: Can AI ‘offset’ its own, growing emissions?

Data centre electricity demand is predicted will rise to around 945 terawatt hours by 2030, more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.

La Niña has ended after three weak months. What does it mean for Europe’s weather?

Longer-term weather forecasts are more difficult to establish when the phenomenon is not present.

'Make America's showers great again': Trump reverses US water and energy saving measures

The standards were intended to make dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines and toilets use less energy and water.

Torsdag 10 april 2025

‘One big backlash’: Why is a green shareholder activist group pausing its climate resolutions?

A “changing political landscape” and global trade tensions are partly to blame, according to the Netherlands-based group.

Not just social media: Report claims mainstream French media is spreading climate disinformation

A new study discovered dozens of climate lies being shared in French media, from renewable energy to EVs.

EU agrees to restore soils to health but stops short of setting legal targets

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

Ditching fossil fuels would improve energy security for most countries, new research finds

Trade-related risks to energy security decline on average by 19 per cent in net-zero scenarios.

Onsdag 9 april 2025

Commission overruled as lawmakers extend microplastic controls to shipping

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.

European premiere of Meryl Streep narrated film urging nature restoration

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’.

Nations debate historic first global carbon tax as shipping faces pressure to cut emissions

As nations of the world debate a historic global carbon tax on shipping, the US has waded in with threats of retaliation.

Europe’s largest meteorite impact crater is pumping out methane and nobody knows why

Methane emissions in Sweden’s Siljan Ring lakes are up to 300 times higher than expected, raising climate concerns.

Lego says new factory in Vietnam will make toys without without adding emissions to the atmosphere

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.

‘Their determination is heroic’: Portuguese youth mount fresh climate lawsuit against government

A new lawsuit is being built to challenge the Portuguese government’s climate targets and plans by young veterans of climate litigation.

Tisdag 8 april 2025

MEPs reject renewed attacks on NGO funding in EU budget review

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.

Meet Zen, the border collie teaching rescue dogs as climate change compounds avalanche risks

When things go wrong, the only weapon Alpine rescuers have to search is dogs.

World surpasses 40% clean electricity with Europe leading as a 'solar superpower'

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.

Måndag 7 april 2025

European Commission slammed for 'opaque' funding of NGOs

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.

Scientists say human-caused pollution may be masking the true extent of climate warming

The findings will help develop more accurate climate models to predict future climate change.

Meet the teen duo that won this year’s Earth Prize Europe with their groundbreaking clean water tech

The European winners hope they can scale up their invention to tackle water pollution at its source.

Söndag 6 april 2025

Dying for a glass of wine? South African farm workers fight EU’s ‘toxic trade’ in pesticides

Pesticides deemed too dangerous for Europe continue to be made here and exported. South Africa’s farm workers have had enough.

Lördag 5 april 2025

Russia continues December's Kerch Strait oil spill clean-up from two storm-stricken Russian tank

Russia continues its Black Sea clean-up operation in the Kerch Strait, after last December’s oil spill from two storm-stricken Russian tankers, according to Russian authorities.

Fredag 4 april 2025

Going round in circularity: Most Brits confused by sustainability language, survey finds

A third of consumers admitted to ignoring what brands say about sustainability because it confuses them.

We know next to nothing about 99 per cent of the world’s insects: Here’s why that’s a problem

While we regularly hear about population declines in ‘charismatic’ insects like bees, huge data gaps make it hard to protect the rest.

Torsdag 3 april 2025

Greens, socialists hope centrist alliance will limit scale of EU deregulation

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.

Beryl, Helene and Milton join list of nearly 100 hurricane names so deadly they won’t be repeated

The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season was the ninth in a row with above average activity, the WMO says.

Greece storms were made wetter and more destructive by climate change, study finds

The research found that storms are up to 15 per cent wetter now than they would have been in the past.

Onsdag 2 april 2025

The Arctic’s glaciers are retreating, exposing new coastlines that could trigger tsunamis

The unstable new coastline poses safety risks for the tourists that flock to coastal glacial areas for their beauty and abundant wildlife.

Commission denies singling out NGOs in green funding row

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

Dead hedgehogs reveal PCB pollution still haunts the environment decades after ban

Researchers have found hedgehog bodies are full of environmental pollutants, including some of the most hazardous to human health.

'The last form of protest I have': German priest prefers prison over €500 fine for climate activism

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.

Tisdag 1 april 2025

Türkiye’s 20,000-year-old glaciers are disappearing. Scientists want to close them to visitors

The remaining glacial area in the Cilo Mountains has been damaged and degraded, scientists say.

MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs

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.

Finland ‘ahead of schedule’ on coal phase out as Helsinki’s Salmisaari plant closes

Wind power in Finland has more than doubled since 2020 to supply a quarter of the country’s energy.

Lördag 29 mars 2025

Coca-Cola and Unilever among dozens of plastic brands tied to Texas fracking, investigation reveals

More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.

Fredag 28 mars 2025

‘Hanging up the high vis’: Just Stop Oil says it will stop direct action protests this April

During their three-year history, Just Stop Oil supporters have been arrested 3,300 times and imprisoned 180 times.

Massive Attack concert made history by slashing greenhouse gas emissions by 98%

The gig broke the world record for the lowest carbon emissions ever produced by a music event.

Governments losing patience with European Commission over delayed 2040 climate target proposal

With some clear exceptions, there appears to be broad support among European governments to open negotiations on a 2040 emissions reduction target as soon as possible – but enthusiasm for the 90% cut favoured by the European Commission was less in evidenc

Torsdag 27 mars 2025

Vietnam’s ancient fish sauce making tradition is being threatened by warming seas and overfishing

Fish sauce from the village has been recognised by Vietnam as an indelible part of the country's heritage.

Onsdag 26 mars 2025

Toxic water and a sickening stench: How pig-rearing has turned this Spanish town into ‘a dungheap’

Residents are too afraid to drink water from their local wells or open their windows for fear of the stench of nearby livestock operations.

Europe challenged to step up as China’s solar boom powers record renewable energy growth

UN climate chief Simon Stiell said that the clean energy transition can be "Europe's economic engine-room".

Heavy rainfall fills empty reservoirs in Spain, bringing drought relief and floods

Reservoirs around the country are now around 66% full on average, according to Spain's environment and ecological transition ministry — the highest level in a decade.

Tisdag 25 mars 2025

Chinese lithium must not become ‘the new Russian gas’, says EU industry chief

The EU has drawn up a priority list of 47 projects for the mining and processing of critical raw materials, which local authorities will be required to fast-track through the permitting process in as little as 15 months or less.

Barcelona has the highest density of cars in the EU. Cutting traffic by 25% could save 200 lives

From superblocks to port electrification plans, Barcelona’s traffic pollution is slowly improving.

This decade-long climate lawsuit saw its plaintiffs grow from children into adults. Now, it is over

The case has inspired similar climate legal action on behalf of young people across the United States.

Bottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €11bn a year, new study finds

Ocean experts found that the economic costs mostly come from carbon emissions caused by churning up the seabed.

Måndag 24 mars 2025

‘Embarrassing, bad and frankly dangerous’: Experts react to drop in US weather balloon launches

Weather balloons are an “essential piece of the forecasting system.” But there will be fewer of them in tornado season this year.

Renewables stepped up to meet surge in energy demand from rising temperatures in 2024, IEA says

Despite some climate-related setbacks, the decoupling of emissions from economic growth is one promising trend.