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Dutch police arrest climate activists during protest near The Hague

Dutch police arrest extinction rebellion activists and sympathisers after a demonstration blocked one of the main roads leading into The Hague.

Ecotech

This device captures microplastic pollution from car tyres

Meet the award-winning startup that created a device which collects harmful microplastics released from your car tyres.

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Demonstrators demand 'tax on the rich' ahead of Davos summit

Demonstrators from the Swiss Socialist Youth, Strike WEF and Greenpeace gathered at Davos Postplatz on Sunday to demand a climate tax on the super-rich attending the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Switzerland.

World News

Protesters are trying to save abandoned German village set to be bulldozed for coal mine

Anti-coal protesters clashed with police at a massive rally of several thousand people in western Germany on Saturday, with police complaining that protective barriers had been broken down near a huge open-cast coal mine.

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United Arab Emirates

Top oil executive named as president of COP28

Environmentalists are criticising a decision by the United Arab Emirates to name top oil executive Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber as the president of this year's COP28 climate talks.

Earth News

These are the five biggest reasons carbon offsetting schemes fail

Elina Kajosaari tells us why many carbon offsetting schemes fail the official sustainability criteria.

Germany

Climate activists pledge to defend German village from being bulldozed

Thousands of climate activists vowed to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed to make way for the expansion of a nearby coal mine

France

Climate activists spray-paint France's Ministry of Ecology

In Paris climate activists spray-painted the Ministry of Ecology in the latest protest attack on government buildings over what they see as a lack of action on the environment

Republic of North Macedonia

Skopje chokes in dangerous levels of air pollution

North Macedonia has imposed emergency measures in its capital Skopje and three other cities to tackle soaring levels of smog.

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Watch: Hundreds march for biodiversity and human rights in Canada

Protesters marched for biodiversity and human rights in Montreal, where the COP15 UN Biodiversity Conference is taking place.

Earth News

UN chief meets young activists ahead of COP15 talks

Nearly 200 countries will try to hammer out a new global framework to protect 30 per cent of Earth's land and oceans by 2030.

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OCP’s commitment to restoring biodiversity in Africa

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The OCP Group, a global leader in plant nutrition and the world’s largest producer of phosphate-based fertilisers, recognises that long-term strategies should incorporate every possible protection for environments and life forms.

Uruguay

Thousands of experts meet to tackle global plastic waste

More than 2,000 experts have met in Uruguay to discuss global plastic pollution and to take their first steps toward ending the crisis.

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How is Rodrigues becoming more sustainable?

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Located approximately 370 miles off the northeast coast of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, Rodrigues Island boasts to be the most authentic of the Mascarene Island. The population derives a living mainly from fishing, local crafts, agriculture, livestock farming and tourism.

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The EU’s first ‘ecocide’ trial: toxic chemicals found in French homes

Carcinogen chemical trichloroethylene was detected in Grézieu-La-Varenne in 2019. The discovery came after a resident found a viscous, foul-smelling liquid in her backyard. A search discovered that traces of the chemical were 800 times the legally acceptable limit.

Italy

Four people still missing on Italian island after deadly landslide

Rescuers struggle to find the people still missing after the landslide in the southern Italian island of Ischia. They can't use excavation tools are have to rely on shovels to dig through the mud and debris

Earth News

What the 'landmark' plastic pollution treaty could mean for the planet

Plastic pollution is a planetary crisis on par with climate change and biodiversity loss. The world's first plastic pollution treaty could help fight that.

Climate

Meet the K-pop stans taking on the climate crisis

K-pop fans from around the world are teaming up to tackle the climate crisis because after all there’s ‘No K-pop on a dead planet’.

Panama

Delegates extend protection to 54 shark species from global trade

Studies say the number of threatened shark species has more than doubled in the last decade.

Smart Regions

Can Gorizia and Nova Gorica pave way for cross-border EU cooperation?

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With over one-third of Europe's population living on its borders, a new EU initiative, the EGTC, hopes to provide a way of improving cross-border cooperation within the union.