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Euroviews. The enduring power of the hunger strike ǀ View

In 2009, some friends came up with a campaigning idea so terrifying that we immediately put it on a shelf where it remained for a decade gathering dust. The idea was to use digital tools and social media to harness the power of the hunger strike on a massive scale.

World

'Mobilisation on World War Two scale needed to achieve climate target'

A climate politics expert has told Euronews that mobilisation on the level of World War Two is required to fulfil the Paris Climate Agreement's minimum target.

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The Brief: MEPs' choice: politicians rate incoming European Commission's priorities

In Strasbourg, MEPs voiced their opinions on what they believed to be the most important priority of the incoming Commission.

World News

EU Parliament debates a motion to declare climate emergency

European Union lawmakers are debating a motion that would declare a "climate emergency", just a week before the United Nations climate conference in Madrid. However, the declaration has raised criticism among environmental activists and organizations, that demand further action.

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Destinations

The woman risking her life in the desert to document climate change

Scottish adventurer Alice Morrison is on the verge of spending three months in the Sahara Desert.

Spain

Spain could lose its biggest glacier in just 20 years

Such is the rate of global warming that scientists predict that the Lost Mountain glacier in northern Spain will disappear altogether within twenty years.

Living

These Eco-Visionaries are using AI to recreate near-extinct animals

Dystopian evolution and novel solution a presented side by side at The Royal Academy of the Arts

Sweden

Greta Thunberg doppelgänger photo from 1898 sparks online frenzy

"Greta Thunberg is a time traveller!" - wild theories are coming out after a doppelganger photo went viral

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Children protest severe pollution in India after school closures

Toxic smog that surrounds New Delhi has plunged air quality into the "severe" category on several days this month.

Australia

In pictures: Australia's 'unprecedented' wildfires seen from space

The fires have rekindled the debate about the climate crisis in the country, which is one of the world's largest exporters of coal.

Italy

Steel plant accused of thousands of deaths related to toxic emissions

The Tamburi site is at the centre of a huge legal case. Experts cited by prosecutors have said some 7,500 people were killed in the area over seven years by diseases linked to toxic emissions.

World

European Investment Bank to stop funding fossil fuel projects

The bank’s new energy lending policy was approved with “overwhelming” support.

World News

Greta Thunberg sets sail for Madrid's COP25 on a catamaran

"We sail for home!" Greta Thunberg announced on Twitter on Wednesday.

Netherlands

Netherlands to reduce speed limit to combat pollution

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has confirmed that the national speed limit will be dropped to 100km/h (62mph) in a bid to combat the country's nitrogen pollution crisis.

Italy

Venice flooding at historic levels during high tide

The mayor of Venice is set to declare a state of disaster after the city was flooded during the highest tide in over half a century.

World News

The smallest hole in the ozone layer is closing - but is it good news?

Experts warn against getting too excited.

Italy

Italy introduces mandatory climate change lessons in schools

"I want to make the Italian education system the first education system that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school," Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said.

World News

Most countries' climate targets 'totally insufficient' — study

The US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement sends "a terrible signal", the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tells Euronews.

World News

Warmest October on record occurred in 2019

Temperatures were 0.69C warmer than the average October temperatures from 1981-2010.

World News

11,000 scientists declare climate emergency

A worldwide coalition of scientists has declared a climate emergency, setting out key steps governments must take to avoid catastrophic consequences.