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Watch: Greta Thunberg sails into New York for UN climate change summit

Thunberg was met by a flotilla of 17 sailboats, each displaying one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals on its sail.

Europe Decoded

Should we compare Amazon forest fires to those in central Africa?

We spoke to an expert to find out whether we should be more concerned about the ecological impact in Africa than South America.

USA

Watch: Greta Thunberg arrives in New York on carbon-neutral yacht

Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has just arrived in New York.

Portugal

Euroviews. Want to fight climate change? Start with challenging your mayor and your neighbours to act ǀ View

how can we as citizens promote the necessary change to stop our contribution to a visible problem so poorly combated by global geopolitics that inertia will impede reaching a pre-industrial age climate anytime soon? The answer might be closer to hand than you expected.

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Brazil

Amazon wildfires: Why is the South American rainforest so important?

The Amazon absorbs more CO2 than it rejects and stores 90 to 140 billion metric tonnes of CO2, according to the WWF, which warned that "the release of even a portion of which would accelerate global warming significantly."

World News

One year of Greta Thunberg, activist and magnet for hope — and hate

Greta Thunberg has inspired many, but is ridiculed by some who question if her sailing trip to America is as environmentally-friendly as it seems.

Greenland

Greenland glacier retreats 10 kilometres in six years

Just inside the Arctic Circle — stood on ice that is thousands of years old — David Holland has a first-hand view of what he sees as the beginning of the end of the world.

Denmark

World's largest all-electric ferry sets sail in Denmark

The Ellen can carry 30 cars and 200 passengers.

Iceland

Climate Change top of the agenda as Nordic ministers meet in Iceland

The meeting comes after environmentalists in Iceland laid a commemorative plaque on the site of a Glacier on Sunday that had been declared dead. The Okjökull glacier had existed for 700 years and was Iceland's first glacier to disappear.

World News

Euroviews. Climate-friendly policies can succeed in Europe - but not at the expense of workers ǀ View

Green policies will be short-lived if proposals fail to recouple social progress with environmental and economic concerns. New training schemes and welfare protections are the key to achieving long-standing change.

World News

Iceland unveils memorial to glacier in climate change warning

Iceland’s prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir was among those who attended the ceremony at the site where the Okjokull glacier once was.

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"We survived" - kayakers flee collapsing glacier

Two kayakers, Andrew Hooper and Josh Bastyr, had a lucky escape when a glacier collapsed at Spencer Glacier in Alaska on August 10.

World News

There have been three times more wildfires in the EU so far this year

More than 1,600 wildfires have been recorded so far this year — more than three times the average amount recorded by the same time over the past ten years.

Brazil

Amazon fires generate smoke cloud almost as big as Siberia blaze

Amazon fires generate smoke cloud almost as big as devastating Siberia blaze

World

Climate change is real say 90% of Greenland's population

Ninety percent of Greenland's population believe climate change is real - that's according to the first ever national survey of the effects of climate change on a nation's population.

Iceland

Iceland's first glacier to disappear will be remembered with monument

Okjökull was the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status due to climate change.

Green News

A Wildlife Photographer shows us the personality and plight of animals

Graeme Purdy explains to us how he's spent years capturing wildlife but in his latest project, from only eight feet away.

World News

Buckle up! Researchers warn of more turbulence due to climate change

Potentially dangerous turbulence is becoming more common on transatlantic flights because of changes linked to climate change, according to a study.

World News

Euroviews. Finally, the world’s top climate scientists recognize what we have always known ǀ View

We—Indigenous Peoples and local communities—play a critical role in stewarding and safeguarding the world’s lands and forests. For the first time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued today recognizes that strengthening our rights is a critical solution to the climate crisis.

World News

Eat plants, conserve land to curb climate change — IPCC

A special report found that land is under growing pressure from climate change and better management is essential for reducing greenhouse gases.