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QUIZ: So you think you know about plastic pollution? Test your knowledge now

2018 brought a loud wake-up call crying about the great plastic footprint we’re leaving behind. But did you, indeed, wake up? Are you familiar with the scale of mismanaged plastic waste? Test your knowledge now!

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Euroviews. 'Aquaman' raises serious environmental questions but few solutions

Superhero stories love to imagine the end of the world, but don't have much to offer in the face of actual global catastrophes.

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Europe briefing: Six stories to know about today

Here are some of the key European stories to know about today.

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More than 40 injured in explosion in Japan's Sapporo - Kyodo

More than 40 injured in explosion in Japan's Sapporo - Kyodo

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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.

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Group led by Thomas Piketty aims to fight right-wing populism in EU

A group formed by Thomas Piketty aims to fight right-wing populism in the EU. Its core proposal is the creation of an €800 billion annual budget – equivalent to 4 per cent of the EU's GDP, and four times the the bloc's current budget.

Markets

Paris protests could hit tourism and transport stocks again

Paris protests could hit tourism and transport stocks again

Poland

COP24: Poland's Kurtyka explains a 'just' climate change strategy

'It's important to make this transition and not lose anybody on the trip'

Poland

Greenpeace stages chimney top protest at Polish coal power plant

Activists endure freezing conditions in protest against Poland's pro-coal energy policy

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.

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CO2 emissions on the rise for first time in four years

A report by the United Nations Environment Programme shows that global carbon dioxide emissions rose again during 2017 after a three year hiatus

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.

France

'Fuel taxes will adapt to price fluctuations,': Macron

In a response to the gilets jaunes protests across France, president Emmanuel Macron announced fuel taxes would be adapted to price fluctuations but that he will not reverse the policy.

Indonesia

Beached whale found with six kilos of plastics in stomach

WWF calls for new treaty to limit use of plastics

Living

The dark side of cotton pads

Why we’re calling time on cotton (non-organic cotton that is)

France

France's fuel price protests turn deadly

Around 50,000 people are estimated to have joined the "yellow vests " in over a thousand locations the Interior Ministr said on Satuday.

World News

Russian official sacked after photoshopping landfill site pictures

A Russian official has been sacked after photoshopping pictures of a landfill site.

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EU states 'putting threatened marine species at risk'

Environmental NGOs have warned that pledges on paper to protect sites in the Natura 2000 network of core breeding and resting sites for rare and threatened species were not being fulfilled.