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Humanity's future depends on how we manage water, says UN head

Water action needs to be at the "centre of the global political agenda," UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Friday at the end of a three-day conference on water resources.

25/03/2023

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Watch: Upside down car stuck in a Berlin street

Greenpeace held a protest on Wednesday against Germany's stance on combustion engines in Europe. The Transport Ministry has indicated it won’t back a planned European Union ban on the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035.

24/03/2023

Green News

Safe drinking water: US proposes ‘historic’ limits on PFAS

Dangerous ‘forever chemicals’ could soon be limited in US drinking water under historic new bill.

15/03/2023

World News

CDP Awards: The cities and businesses meeting environmental challenge

The 2023 CDP awards have been made in Paris at the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

09/03/2023

Focus

Forest preservation discussed at French-Gabonese summit

In partnership with Présidence de la République Gabonaise

Tropical forest preservation and funding was central to discussions at the One Forest Summit, an international conference in Gabon’s capital Libreville.

08/03/2023

Nature

‘Appalling’ scale of bottom trawling in the UK revealed in new report

The NGO says it equates to 15 years worth of negative impact in Marine Protected Areas, "making a mockery" of the UK's biodiversity goals.

02/03/2023

Ocean

Port behind 10% of Belgium's CO₂ emissions adopts carbon-slashing tech

In partnership with the European Commission

A carbon footprint heavyweight, Antwerp-Bruges aims to reinvent itself as the world's most sustainable port

28/02/2023

Ocean

How 46 international partners are working on a green future for ports

In partnership with the European Commission

PIONEERS project coordinator Inge De Wolf highlights the benefit of bringing 46 international partners together to work on a greener future for ports

28/02/2023

Eco-Innovation

Companies use ‘carbon insetting’ to hide true emissions, report warns

Corporations use ‘carbon insetting’ to give consumers false impression of climate impact, according to a damning new report.

21/02/2023

USA

Air and water near toxic train derailment are safe: EPA

The head of the EPA in the United State states has tried to reassure residents of East Palestine that their drinking water and air are safe after a train derailed, creating a toxic plume of chemicals.

17/02/2023

Euronews Witness

Time is running out: who are the climate activists sounding the alarm?

Soup on a Van Gogh, hands glued to roads, mashed potatoes on a Monet painting. Europe’s climate activists have been adopting more extreme tactics. Our reporter Hans von der Brelie met them to find out why.

16/02/2023

World News

Dutch police arrest climate activists during protest near The Hague

Dutch police arrest extinction rebellion activists and sympathisers after a demonstration blocked one of the main roads leading into The Hague.

28/01/2023

Eco-Innovation

This device captures microplastic pollution from car tyres

Meet the award-winning startup that created a device which collects harmful microplastics released from your car tyres.

26/01/2023

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Demonstrators demand 'tax on the rich' ahead of Davos summit

Demonstrators from the Swiss Socialist Youth, Strike WEF and Greenpeace gathered at Davos Postplatz on Sunday to demand a climate tax on the super-rich attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Switzerland.

17/01/2023

World News

Protesters are trying to save abandoned German village set to be bulldozed for coal mine

Anti-coal protesters clashed with police at a massive rally of several thousand people in western Germany on Saturday, with police complaining that protective barriers had been broken down near a huge open-cast coal mine.

14/01/2023

United Arab Emirates

Top oil executive named as president of COP28

Environmentalists are criticising a decision by the United Arab Emirates to name top oil executive Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber as the president of this year's COP28 climate talks.

12/01/2023

Green News

These are the five biggest reasons carbon offsetting schemes fail

Elina Kajosaari tells us why many carbon offsetting schemes fail the official sustainability criteria.

10/01/2023

Germany

Climate activists pledge to defend German village from being bulldozed

Thousands of climate activists vowed to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed to make way for the expansion of a nearby coal mine

08/01/2023

France

Climate activists spray-paint France's Ministry of Ecology

In Paris climate activists spray-painted the Ministry of Ecology in the latest protest attack on government buildings over what they see as a lack of action on the environment

06/01/2023

Republic of North Macedonia

Skopje chokes in dangerous levels of air pollution

North Macedonia has imposed emergency measures in its capital Skopje and three other cities to tackle soaring levels of smog.

26/12/2022