World news about “Ecology” published by euronews.
Poland’s Green Nursery The Bytomka river running through the Polish town of Zabrze has become a classroom for children from a kindergarten in the town. Two of their teachers… 08/04/2013
UV-LEDs lower cost of water purification New technology for water purification has been developed based on UV-LED and photocatalysis. The water purification device is the work of a research… 01/04/2013
Lagoons under the microscope At the Ria de Aveiro Lagoon in Portugal the day starts early for European scientists as they set out to gather samples. The lagoon offers a rich but fragile… 25/03/2013
Earth Hour: millions switch off the lightsEarth Hour is observed at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, the Cologne Cathedral and in Frankfurt’s city centre (L-R) during (top) and before the lights were… 24/03/2013
Earth Hour sparks a worldwide switch-off Environment charity WWF launched the Paris end of their annual climate change awareness campaign by standing in front of a darkened Eiffel Tower. The lights… 24/03/2013
‘Africa needs inclusive growth’ – head of African Development BankSpeaking at the Climate Parliament assembly in Brussels, the President of the African Development Bank, Donald Kaberuka, has called for further investment in… 21/03/2013
Educating the green guardians of the future With climate change, deforestation and ever increasing threats to wildlife, environmental activists believe much more still needs to be done to protect our… 15/03/2013
Anti-whaling group try to save harpooned whale – nocomment Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd’s Bob Barker positioned itself between Japanese whaling vessel, Yushin Maru 2 and factory ship, Nisshin Maru in an attempt to… 17/02/2013
Green light for green clusters Everyone has heard of business clusters, where interconnected companies join forces in order to boost performance. The Austrian town of Graz is an example… 08/02/2013
Cooking up natural plastics It’s time for a bit of cooking at a research Institute in Brindisi, Southern Italy. The recipe is simple: a splashing of natural textiles, a good dose of… 28/01/2013
Micro-algae is new energy source In the Ennesys Lab in Nanterre, France, researchers are working on a project to produce energy from waste water by cultivating micro-algae in order to heat… 23/01/2013
Blog: the bride is in greenHere we are back in London, the traffic jams are unavoidable. But the pub was very pleasant and you have celebrate the end of shoot with a pint of bitter… 08/01/2013
Going green: eco-friendly weddings all the trend Marriage – an institution which stands the test of time. Two million weddings are celebrated in the European Union each year. Although the number of… 08/01/2013
Vitoria-Gasteiz is Spain’s green pioneer In the north of Spain, there is a wetland that might seem like many others. Except these lakes that are dominated by bizarre structures have been created from… 18/12/2012
Blog: the green attitude of the Basque capitalVitoria-Gasteiz. I might well have lived in Spain, although it was on the other side of the country in Seville, which hadn’t had its Expo and its development… 18/12/2012
Cyprus’s race for liquid gold The second harvest of the year is being prepared in potato fields in Xylophagou, a speciality of the region in the south of Cyprus. But water from the… 14/12/2012
Protecting the environment can be profitable As technology progresses, consumer habits change. Like many other electrical appliances, old television sets have become obsolete. This week, Business… 14/12/2012
Overfishing: can the EU influence change? The darkest warnings are becoming reality: the world’s fish stocks are collapsing. Many blame the so-called “supertrawlers” supported by public money. … 13/12/2012
World’s largest water company steps up reorganisation Veolia Environnement is intensifying its reorganisation. The world’s largest water company has completed the sale of its solid waste unit in the United… 21/11/2012
Urban Farms in Berlin A Berlin -based company, Efficient City Farming (ECF), has developed the Container Farm, which they hope will be a step in the right direction towards a more… 08/11/2012
Protecting the Giant Mussels of the Italian coast The operation to remove the wreckage of the Costa Concordia from the Italian coastline has faced many challenges but one in particular has caught the… 06/11/2012
Bonus interview: Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak, junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland Complete interview in English with junior minister for shale gas at the Environment Ministry of Poland, Piotr Grzegorz Wozniak. 02/11/2012
Bonus interview: Jakub Gogolewski, coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland Complete interview in English with coordinator for CEE Bankwatch Network Poland, Jakub Gogolewski. 02/11/2012
Green light for eco-industries More than three million people across the EU now work in eco-industries, producing nature-friendly goods and services. It is an increasingly competitive… 19/09/2012
US biofuel policy a threat to global food supply The UN’s Food Agency has stepped up pressure on the United States to change its biofuel policy due to fear over a World Food Crisis. 40 percent of the … 10/08/2012
Green groups slam Commission on environment President Jose Manual Barroso, European Commission chief, has reached the half way stage of his second term of office. Along with Europe’s debt crisis… 06/07/2012
Rio protesters denounce the “Greed economy”People protest against the current economic system at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro June 21, 2012. The… 22/06/2012
World Environment Day in KathmanduKathmandu, Nepal. A woman looks for recyclable materials in a dump site located along the banks of the polluted Bagmati River. June 5 marks World Environment… 05/06/2012
Dutch inventor cleans up water treatment Water, water everywhere… but most of it is not fit to drink. Around one billion people do not have access to clean water. Untreated or undertreated sewage… 22/05/2012
The Nature of Altai In the south of Siberia, where Russia comes together with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China, lie pristine lands where people try to live in harmony with nature… 14/05/2012
Traveller’s Diary: AltaiDenis Loktev, Barnaul In our continuing journey across the largest country in the world, we’ve seen many beautiful places – the amazing purity of Lake… 14/05/2012
MEPs told to change plastic bottle habit The art of politics has never been easy, but in Brussels it seems to be very thirsty work. That is because last year the European Parliament used over a… 10/05/2012
Earth day in the Philippines – nocomment About 100 volunteers and activists picked up plastic bottles and other non-biodegradable waste that washed ashore on the 175 hectare mangrove island, called… 22/04/2012
Smart irrigation bears fruit A new irrigation system – Waterbee – is set to reduce costs and save water. John O’Flaherty, the project coordinator for Waterbee, explained: “We’ve… 14/03/2012
Malmö shows off its green regeneration Malmö, Scandinavia’s bridge to Europe, is Sweden’s third largest city with 300,000 inhabitants. About a third of them are immigrants. Malmö is a city in… 26/01/2012
Logging puts Tasmanian eagles at risk In the Australian state of Tasmania, the native eagles are under threat because intensive logging is destroying their natural habitat. 10/01/2012
China calls for talks on EU airline tax China has said it is deeply concerned and opposed to the European Union’s airline tax, and has called for talks to resolve the issue. The statement comes a… 05/01/2012
Arguments run hot and cold over climate change At the recent climate talks in Durban the alarm was sounded. A stark warning went out that unless the World acts quickly to slash greenhouse gasses it faces a… 22/12/2011
Pop on a pod They call it the ‘Heathrow Pod’, and it is a new way of getting around the urban jungle. Rather than waiting for a bus, business travellers just take one a… 14/12/2011
Belgium: car executives face protest at key Brussels lobby meeting – nocomment Greenpeace campaigners parked a truck in front of the building where chief executives of Europe’s biggest car companies were due to meet, blocking the main… 03/12/2011
Punggol eco-town – Building energy efficiencyToday we headed to the north of Singapore to see some sustainable housing projects- so far north in fact that our mobile phones told us “Welcome to Malaysia”… 01/11/2011
The fallout from the Swiss election Changes are clearly happening in the Swiss political balance. The right-wing UDC in Switzerland figured it would get a hefty score in the latest elections… 24/10/2011
Belgians trial ‘green cement’ in tunnel If you are one of the thousands of drivers who use the Leopold II tunnel in Brussels, you may have noticed part of the road is a lot brighter than the rest. 16/09/2011
Horses as eco-friendly alternative to garbage trucks – nocomment A borough in Brussels is turning back the clocks, choosing to buy horses rather than a new rubbish truck to collect the area’s waste. 06/08/2011
Garlic against global warming from cows Grass goes in one end, methane comes out the other. As a greenhouse gas, this is far more potent than carbon dioxide. So, scientists on a research farm in… 02/08/2011
When too much green is not green at all Another summer’s day, another huge tide of green algae along the coast of Brittany in north western France. It is a complex environmental problem that has… 21/07/2011
Eco loo works wonders with waste Toilets come in all shapes, sizes and designs; from the truly awful to the rather attractive. But they all have one thing in common. And as well as that, they… 04/07/2011
Flying high, but on what fuel at the Paris Air Show? The environment is a key focus at this year’s Paris Air Show. In particular, with oil prices heading ever higher, more alternative fuels are being tested. … 23/06/2011
One of smallest butterflies could disappear One of the world’s smallest butterflies, the Sinai Baton Blue, is threatened with extinction according to scientists. It feeds on a specific kind of wild… 13/06/2011
Back to the wild for Argentinian giant anteaters Conservationists in Argentina say they are winning the battle to preserve one of the country’s most distinctive animals. The giant anteater once thrived in… 02/06/2011
South Koreans protest in front of US embassySouth Korean environmentalists stage a rally in front of the US embassy, where they demanded an investigation into claims by US veterans who said they were… 23/05/2011
Portuguese island to become first CO2-free island In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a silent green revolution is underway. Graciosa, a small island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, is set to… 02/05/2011
Daul defends Brussels against corruption claims The chairman of the European People’s Party, Joseph Daul, says there is no need for further controls in the European Parliament in the wake of the ‘cash for… 21/04/2011
A life underwater Jo Harmelin started diving in 1956. As a scientist he has noticed how the Mediterranean sea has evolved and he remains optimistic. “Hello I’m Jo Harmelin… 07/04/2011
Heat stroke in wetlands Fabrizio Sergio is a Biological Researcher at the Donana National Park in Spain. “I’m Fabrizio Sergio. I’m a researcher at a biological station in Donana… 07/04/2011
GPS buoys used to measure sea levels As the world warms, sea levels around the globe are rising by around three millimetres every year, according to measurements taken by satellites. 31/03/2011
Rare baby hyenas to be kept in Kenya orphanage Three rare abandoned hyena cubs are being cared for at the animal orphanage in Nairobi National Park. They belong to the endangered striped hyena species… 21/03/2011
Belgian town’s nuclear fondness Europe has its own nuclear realities to deal with. One example is in the Belgian town of Huy, in Wallonia. There are three nuclear reactors at its Tihange… 18/03/2011
Checking EU trust in nuclear power With many Europeans worried about what nuclear power might mean for their future, against the backdrop of events in Japan, euronews asked a set of questions… 18/03/2011
‘Be keen on Green’ ‘Be keen on green’ is the message being taught in homes and schools around the world as the health of the planet becomes an ever greater concern. Schools and… 18/03/2011
José Bové, ex-rebel now MEP As far as the French go, José Bové is no ordinary Frenchman. At times he has come across as larger than life, stirring up a crowd in Seattle… interfering with… 17/03/2011
New green plastic made from milk curd “We have developed a new bioplastic based on whey protein, used for making recyclable food packaging,” says Elodie Bugnicourt of Barcelona-based research… 10/03/2011
A photovoltaic oasis In the harsh, isolated, semi-desert region north of Cairo in Egypt, 150 acres has been planted with beans, peas and orange trees. But there is a problem: an… 23/02/2011
Kite solution on horizon for windpower Conventional wind turbines can be dangerous for birds, are ugly, noisy, and do not take advantage of the really strong constant winds found at higher… 23/02/2011
Don’t chuck that TV, recycle it Electronics ranging from televisions to mobile phones contain elements which are likely to become scarce. Still, most obsolete electronics end up in… 14/02/2011
Striving to save the Red-Breasted Goose The Red-Breasted Goose is one of Europe’s most threatened birds. A project aiming to monitor the goose’s behaviour and movements is being conducted by… 07/02/2011
Home Green Home Maybe in the future more houses will be one that euronews visited in Aarhus, Denmark. Around 50 people are living in revolutionary homes that use energy in a… 15/12/2010
Greenpeace’s chief: ‘Stop gambling with kids’ future’ In the beginning it was dismissed as a fringe hippy movement – annoying but unimportant. Almost four decades on Greenpeace is arguably the biggest NGO in… 03/12/2010
Eco-design: Sustainability with style It is a love affair between idea, form and environment. It is eco-design. A concept that has evolved over the years and today has come into its own. At… 29/11/2010
Morocco invests in solar energy The sun is increasingly being seen as a major renewable energy source. In Morocco, the government is building five large solar plants aimed at generating… 25/11/2010
Fashion: if green was the new black? In fashion black is a classic. But green is becoming more and more trendy. At the London College of Fashion, science and creativity come together to make what… 03/11/2010
Getting sorted Here in Romania, these children are learning to recycle paper – and they take it very seriously. They want to save forests, but recycling also saves energy… 20/10/2010
A World without bees? More and more beekeepers all over the world are witnessing a sharp drop in the number of bees they keep. In the United States, 25 percent of honeybees… 07/10/2010
Muni Seva – a Green-Tech Indian Ashram Those who think that Indian Ashrams are mainly isolated religious schools, do not know Muni Seva, in the village of Goraj, in Gujarat. It is more of a… 21/09/2010
Morocco cleans up one of its oldest industries Tanning is an ancient art in Morocco, but it pollutes the environment heavily. Chouara is part of this tradition. It is one of the three tanneries in Medina… 07/09/2010
Can the green economy help global recovery while tackling the problem of climate change ? Transatlantic partners are investing in projects which are bearing fruit in Europe and the United States. Europeans takes you this week to both sides of the… 29/07/2010
A new wave in coastal protection The Theseus research programme brings scientists together to work on finding the best ways to protect Europe’s coastal environment. Little by little, our… 28/07/2010
Safe as houses: building with straw A house made out of straw. It’s perhaps a surprising concept but this type of ecological construction is going through something of a boom period in Europe, a… 13/07/2010
How to choose green products We find more and more Eco labels in stores, but not all of them are telling the whole truth. The European ecolabel on the other hand offers consumers a few… 01/07/2010
Bonus: Jerry Percy Here are some more thoughts from fisherman Jerry Percy 01/07/2010
Stockholm: Europe’s Greenest Capital In Stockholm they are passionate about the environment. There is a long tradition of ambitious environmental efforts there: tackling air pollution, traffic… 01/06/2010
China: a step into the green The University of Nottingham in Ningbo is one of the most advanced centres in China for research and teaching of sustainable energy technologies. Students… 19/05/2010
Shanghai World Expo “better city, better life” Shanghai’s World Expo under the banner of “better city, better life” showcases the latest green technology from 189 countries. As many as 300 pavilions cover… 18/05/2010
Future cities More than half the world’s population already lives in cities, and that trend is going to continue, putting a high demand on energy and resources. Ursula… 11/05/2010
Energy Saving It’s dinner time for baby Otso at his cosy family home on the outskirts of Helsinki. But this is no ordinary Finnish house. Parents Topi and Heli are… 12/02/2010
Shell found ‘partially responsible’ for Niger Delta oil spillRoyal Dutch Shell has been ordered to pay unspecified damages to one farmer in Nigeria for loss of income. The ruling comes after a court at the Hague… 30/01/2013
Crowdfunding makes light work of low-watt light bulbMeet the NanoLight, a revolutionary light bulb that produces the same amount of light as a conventional incandescent 100-watt lamp, but that consumes just 12… 24/01/2013
Prestige oil tanker trial beginsThe trial begins today of those accused over the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker which caused Spain’s worst environmental disaster ten years ago. The… 16/10/2012
Monti enters row over fate of Italy’s giant steel plantItaly’s prime minister has waded into a legal battle over the fate of Europe’s biggest steel plant. Production at the ILVA mill in Taranto is threatened by… 13/08/2012
London Olympics are ‘greenest Games’As it enters its final few days, officials in London say the 2012 Olympics are on track to be the ‘greenest Games’ in history. The original bid to host the… 08/08/2012
Greenland’s “unprecedented” ice meltNASA has released images showing what it describes as an “unprecedented” melt of Greenland’s ice sheet during a four-day period this month. The space agency… 25/07/2012
Rubbish removed from Russia’s Lake BaikalThe shores on Russia’s Lake Baikal are undergoing a much needed makeover. Environmental activists and tourists have joined forces to embark on a massive… 16/07/2012
Rio+20 ends on a low note for activistsIn a room full of joyful delegates, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff signalled the closing of Rio+20 joined with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, however… 23/06/2012
Rio+20 a ‘failure of leadership’ as final text falls short of expectations“A failure of leadership” the verdict on the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit by environmental groups and veteran politicians. Former Brazilian President Fernando… 22/06/2012
Earth summit opens in Rio amid low expectationsThe UN’s three-day sustainable development summit has opened in Rio de Janeiro amid low expectations. Known as the Rio+20 because of the landmark Earth… 21/06/2012
Close up: Rio+20 summit searches sustainable solutionsLeaders of more than 100 countries from around the world are meeting in Brazil this week for a major summit on the environment. The Rio+20 talks aim to… 19/06/2012
Activists protest over cruise ships in Venice lagoonEnvironmentalists in Italy are calling for a halt to big cruise liners entering the Venice lagoon because of damage to the local ecosystem. They claim the… 04/06/2012
Germany’s green giga-goalsGermany has not met its ambition to cover all its power needs for one day exclusively through renewable sources, but half of Monday’s demand was met with… 29/05/2012
Merkel meets federal heads as Germany tries to go greenDespite a failed attempt to generate the whole country’s energy needs using only renewable sources on Monday, the government is determined to make Germany… 29/05/2012
Marine conservationists faces extraditionMarine conservationist Paul Watson is facing extradition from Germany to Costa Rica over allegedly assaulting a shark finning crew. Watson and his group Sea… 15/05/2012
