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Italian ban on plastic cotton buds comes into effect

At the stroke of midnight on Tuesday, Italy said goodbye to cotton buds, as the New Year ushered in the country's latest push to eliminate single-use plastic products.

World News

2018 Review: Single-use plastics to be banned in EU

An EU law will see single-use plastics like straws, plates, knives and forks banned by 2021, in an attempt to tackle one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time. We look back at a less than fantastic year for plastic.

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Campaigning kayaks help keep Thailand's rivers sweet

Environmental campaign aims to reduce rubbish outflows from the Chao Phraya River and prevent trash reaching the sea.

Business Planet

Green growth: promoting innovation and sustainability to foster business in Europe

In partnership with The European Commission

In this episode of Business Planet we focus on the efforts underway to encourage innovation and transform industry in Europe.

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World News

Euroviews. Fish have no voice or a vote. But they need the EU to act now | View

Environmental crisis requires bold decisions. However, fisheries ministers keep setting catch limits too high even though overfishing goes against the law and costs us jobs, food, and money.

Green News

Five new ways to help the environment

2018 has seen some great advances in eco-conscious solutions and green technology

Living

Serving environmental awareness

This three Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain is taking a new approach to recycling some of its waste.

Brazil

Brazil: Deforestation in Amazon rainforest reaches new high

Deforestation in Brazil has reached a new high, shows new data released by the government earlier this week. The deforested space in the last year is close to five times the size of London.

United Kingdom

'Thames mermaid' fishes out rubbish to send a message

Lindsey Cole is swimming the Thames in winter to raise awareness of plastic litter.

World News

Ozone layer healing from man-made damage, UN says

Ozone depletion in the Earth's atmosphere will not be completely overturned until 2060.

World News

Wildlife populations drop 60% in 40 years due to human action: report

The WWF estimates that current rate of species extinction are now up to 1,000 times higher than the standard rate of extinction in Earth's history.

Brazil

Euroviews. Brazil's Bolsonaro: A new candidate for trial in the Hague? | View

Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro, promotes destructive environmental policies that could amount to international crimes, warn human rights experts.

World News

The dirty men of Europe: report identifies the worst EU countries for recycling

A report has identified the EU countries that won't meet the EU's 2020 target of 50% recycling rate.

World News

Euroviews. Tying ourselves to trees won’t solve climate change | View

The root cause of climate change is a broken economic model that undervalues non-renewable resources in favour of consumer products, writes Todd Lemons.

World News

Watch: ‘Headless chicken monster’ discovered by new photo technology

Australian researchers have filmed an unusual sea cucumber in the Southern Ocean using deep-sea cameras and hope it can help a conservation drive.

Green News

Saving puffins in Iceland

Residents on a remote Icelandic island are working together to protect the puffin population.

World

Youths protecting the environment [Inspire Africa]

Who says teenagers do not care about the environment? In this edition of Inspire Afirca, Hannane Ferdjani talks an 18-year-old student who is actively showing his peers how to secure their tomorrow o

World News

Euroviews. Europe is protecting big business over victims of rights abuse | View

In a misguided effort to protect European companies’ competitiveness, our governments are ready to launch a race to the bottom, exploiting workers and destroying our planet.

My Europe Series

"Insiders" talks to all sides on the great German coal divide

Despite its Green credentials Germany is a heavy user of coal, especially lignite, which comes from Europe's biggest opencast strip-mine. Now it wants to expand, but first it has to expel protesters from what remains of Hambach forest, which is due to disappear.

My Europe Series

"Insiders" gets an expert's case against coal

Germany, a heavy user of dirty coal, has a high profile as an environmental leader, but that paradox has to change and the arguments for phasing out this fossil fuel are, says one expert, incontrovertible.