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Smart Regions

How a small French town became a key transport hub

In partnership with the European Commission

In this week's Smart Regions, Euronews finds out how Gardanne's new transport hub is helping the region to thrive and easing the commute of thousands of passengers.

Earth News

Israeli government was ‘not prepared’ for massive oil spill cleanup

Thousands of volunteers have stepped in to clean 12,000 tonnes of tar that washed up on the country's coastline.

United Kingdom

PPE is the new plastic waste nightmare threatening the environment

Plastic bags have been overtaken by face masks as one of the most common pieces of plastic waste. In fact, 102 million are thrown every week in the UK alone.

My Europe Series

Illegal landfill sites along rivers in the Balkans are causing an ecology disaster

Unreported Europe takes a look at how rubbish is ending up in rivers in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro. Environmentalists have condemn this situation, which has been happening for the last 25 years.

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Ecotech

'Incredibly white' environmental sector creates 100 new diverse roles

Environmentalism is the second least diverse industry in the UK, but a new scheme is looking to change that.

World

Can the UK be rid of petrol and diesel cars by 2030?

The UK is expected to stop selling petrol and diesel cars by 2030. But some car manufacturers are dubious about whether this is possible. Stellantis has even said it could force one of its UK factories to close.

Nature

Satellites are being used to help save the world’s coral reefs

This project aims to make it faster, cheaper and easier to save the world’s precious coral reef systems.

No Comment

Islands of floating waste clog river in Bosnia

Islands of waste have formed on a major river in Bosnia, causing an environmental emergency and threatening a regional hydropower plant.

Ecotech

Snow safari: The world's first electric sleds hit the Arctic

Tourists can now travel around Lapland in environmentally-friendly snowmobiles.

World News

Ugly fruit, roaming bears, and halting wildfires: meet the EU LIFE Award 2020 winners

Loving ugly fruit, helping roaming bears, and halting Hungarian wildfires: meet the winners of the EU's LIFE Awards 2020

World News

EU's LIFE Awards recognise best projects for environment and sustainability

Sustainable, green and climate-friendly projects across Europe have been recognized in the LIFE Awards, with projects to fight forest fires, discourage food waste and better manage brown bears receiving the top prizes.

Spain

The Greendomo Project - bringing local, sustainable agriculture

The Greendomo project offers local, substainable agricultural productionb using vastly less space and water reserves than traditional farming. Euronews visits Spain to look at the project in action.

World

A vertical greenhouse plantation integrates agriculture into the city

A group of spanish companies have developed an eco-friendly shake up in the production of our fruit and vegetables . They've invented a new style of greenhouse that can be installed in parks, terraces and even on rooftops

Ocean

The scourge of plastic waste - and the EU's approach

In partnership with the European Commission

Eight million tonnes of plastic enters out oceans every year, damaging and degrading ecosystems - and entering the human food chain. What can be done about it?

Next Series

REFRESH - the EU project to drastically reduce food waste

In partnership with The European Commission

A fifth of all food produced in Europe ends up being wasted. We look into the major strides being taken towards creating a joined-up food production system that will help drastically reduce food waste.

World News

Ten inventive ways Cubans tackle their drinking water problems

Less rainfall, a growing population, the exhaustion of water utilities, and economic hardships are among the reasons for the scarcity of drinking water in Cuba. The daily routines of life without clean running water explained in the work by photographer Sanne Derks.

My Europe Series

The Netherlands must reduce carbon emissions by the end of the year, but can this be done?

The Netherlands must reduce carbon emissions by the end of the year, but can this be done?

Next Series

Cities across Europe transform to bring down carbon emissions

In partnership with The European Commission

In this special edition of Futuris, Euronews looks at how the EU is trying to make one hundred cities carbon neutral by 2030.

USA

Humans burn through the Earth's natural resources for 2020

It's called "Overshoot Day", the moment each year when we humans have used up more natural resources than the Earth can renew in 12 months.

Greece

Divers clean 'ghost nets' off old WWII submarine to save marine life

Environmental divers have cleaned the HMS Perseus, a submarine lost during WWII, of lost fishing gear to prevent marine wildlife getting trapped in the nets.