An artist's impression showing the Concorde Square and the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris

Champs-Elysées gets a green a makeover ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games

River Po, Italy

The longest river in Italy is drying up: How will locals survive?

A ladybug on a flower.

Insect decline could massively increase food bills, warn scientists

General view of the Walney Extension offshore wind farm operated by Orsted off the coast of Blackpool, Britain.

Norway turns its back on gas and oil to become a renewable superpower

Wild boar walk in front of cars

Rome ransacked by wild boars as city bans picnics and imposes curfew

A general view of delegates during the COP15 meeting at at the Sofitel Ivoire Hotel in Abidjan on May 11, 2022.

What is COP15 and how is it addressing climate migration?

The stingray was accidentally caught by fishermen in an 80-metre (260 ft) deep pool in the Mekong in Cambodia's northeastern Stung Treng province.

'Giant' stingray accidentally discovered by fishermen in Cambodia

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What’s behind the surprising growth of one Antarctic ice sheet?

Norway turns its back on gas and oil to become a renewable superpower

The longest river in Italy is drying up: How will locals survive?

Champs-Elysées gets a green a makeover ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games

Rome ransacked by wild boars as city bans picnics and imposes curfew

Green News

Potentially toxic levels of PFAS chemicals have been detected in tap water near Lyon, France’s third largest city.

'Forever chemicals' in tap water near Lyon: How harmful are they?

Demand for the Chinese traditional medicine"ejiao" has greatly depleted donkey populations in China and pushed buyers to source skins abroad.

Illegal donkey skin is being sold alongside human hair on social media

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These artworks will make you think twice before going to the zoo

New fossil-fuelled cars are set to be banned in the EU from 2035.

EU-wide ban on new fossil fuel cars to kick in from 2035

Climate

Sea ice off the eastern Antarctic Peninsula captured by the USGS/NASA Landsat 8 satellite

What’s behind the surprising growth of one Antarctic ice sheet?

An overly tall bench installed on the river bank in Copenhagen

Denmark has built weirdly tall benches as a warning - but what is it?

A mother pushes a stroller in front of the Scholven coal fired power station, owned by Uniper, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.

Could we hit 1.5°C of global warming in the next five years?

Nature

Blue Hole, Belize Barrier Reef

Asexual coral is Belize Barrier Reef's secret weapon for success

Dolphins experience pleasure from "large clitorises"

Scientist says she is ‘amazed’ by the size of dolphin clitorises

Saolas are the most endangered animals in the world.

The 'Asian unicorn' is now the fastest declining species in the world

A seagrass meadow under the water.

This underwater plant absorbs carbon 30 times faster than a rainforest

Living

The Euro currency sign is seen in front of the former European Central Bank (ECB) building as a tramway drives past, in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany.

Cost of living crisis: European countries cut public transport prices

What items you can and can't recycle can be confusing.

These are all the items you shouldn’t put in your recycling bin

Flames from the Morton Fire consume a home near Bundanoon, Australia in 2020.

Climate change could soon make 1 in 25 Australian homes uninsurable

Eco-Innovation

The largest solar car park in the world has opened at Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands

Largest solar car park in the world opens at Dutch music festival

Biofuel could help Europe reduce its dependency on Russian gas.

As G7 commits to banning Russian oil, is fermented fuel the answer?

Dr Fabien Laurier using the new global waste finding tool.

Plastic waste can now be found and monitored from space

Mahendra Kumar is the man behind the garden

Meet Delhi’s guerrilla gardener making rickshaws green

Opinion

Solar energy is the future.

Why solar power is the greenest renewable we have at our disposal

This undated photo provided by Jeffry Buechler shows Wynn Bruce in Longmont, Colorado, US.

How can we make sense of Wynn Alan Bruce's self-immolation?

There are more green jobs than people with the skills to do them, says the expert.

Want a career in sustainability? Here are the skills you will need

Series

How do we boost Europe's wind sector and meet EU climate goals?

How do we boost Europe's wind sector and meet EU climate goals?

Ocean

The world's coral crisis: why are reefs under attack?

Europe's endangered eels: what's been done to save a miraculous creature

Europe's endangered eels: what's been done to save a miraculous creature

Illustration: the "Scarybird" device keeps seabirds safe at the Berlengas archipelago, Portugal

Scarybirds fly to the rescue of endangered species