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Mobility

CES 2023: Are these electric boats the 'Teslas of the sea'?

Several companies have released their designs for electric boats at this year's CES event in Las Vegas.

Green News

Spanish energy giant hit with new €5.5m fine for oil spill in Peru

Nearly 12,000 barrels of oil spilled into the sea off Peru in January last year.

Green News

Spain rules tobacco companies must pay for cigarette butt clean up

Spain has also banned single-use plastic cutlery and plates.

Green News

Are Europe’s largest carbon sinks being cared for properly?

Some of Europe's largest wood producers claim the European Commission has no right to interfere in their forest management policies.

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Nature

In pictures: Nature has taken over these 12 abandoned buildings

From a swimming pool turned urban jungle, to a church carpeted with green, these are some of the most spectacular spots that nature has taken over.

Conscious Travel

Why ‘nature positive travel’ is trending for 2023

‘Nature positive travel’ encourages tourism that has a positive impact on the environment.

Green News

Could ‘climate impact’ labels curb carbon-heavy red meat consumption?

Annual meat production emissions are roughly equivalent to those from every car, truck and plane in the world, according to Greenpeace.

Belgium

EU environment ministers meet off the back of COP15 deal

A fresh injection of impetus was given to a meeting of EU environment ministers in Brussels after the international deal over the weekend which aims to protect 30% of the world’s landmass and seas by 2030.

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Youth activists from around the world meet at biodiversity summit

Young activists from around the world have met at COP15 in Montreal to raise awareness about the state of biodiversity.

Culture news

Iceland Prime Minister finds creating crime pays in debut novel

Can politicians really be creative? Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir on her debut crime thriller, gender parity and embracing one's creative drive

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Watch: Hundreds march for biodiversity and human rights in Canada

Protesters marched for biodiversity and human rights in Montreal, where the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference is taking place.

Green News

UN chief meets young activists ahead of COP15 talks

Nearly 200 countries will try to hammer out a new global framework to protect 30 per cent of Earth's land and oceans by 2030.

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Chile's unique Atacama desert threatened by piles of rubbish

Chile's massive Atacama desert is a unique and fragile ecosystem that experts say is being threatened by piles of trash dumped there from around the world. Mountains of discarded clothing, shoes, scrapped tyres and cars are piling up in at least three regions of the desert.

Culture news

UNESCO celebrates 50th anniversary of World Heritage Convention

Some countries have more than 50 sites, but others - like 12 African countries - have none. UNESCO says the African continent accounts for just nine per cent of World Heritage sites.

Green News

Lab-grown meat cleared for human consumption in the US

The FDA has approved a cultivated chicken product for human consumption, paving the way for lab-grown meat on the shelves.

Europe News

Canadian campaign on domestic violence triumphs at the Care Awards

The Care Awards celebrate the most creative advertising campaigns in the field of social care and enviroment.

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G20: World leaders attend mangrove planting ceremony

World leaders who have gathered for the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia assembled for a tree planting ceremony on Wednesday.

Green News

‘Effective climate policy’ impossible without peace, says Zelenskyy

"Effective climate policy" is impossible "without peace on Earth", said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at COP27 on Tuesday.

Nature

What is ecocide and how would it be prosecuted?

Ecocide is ‘killing’ the earth, campaigners warn. That’s why we need to make it an international crime.

Scenes

Meet the team using bubbles to keep Amsterdam's rivers clean

In partnership with Media City

“Rivers and waterways are like the highways of the plastic pollution.The majority of the plastic in the ocean has traveled through rivers and that's why we want to stop it right there.”