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Brazil

Euroviews. Brazil's Bolsonaro: A new candidate for trial in the Hague? | View

Brazil's newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro, promotes destructive environmental policies that could amount to international crimes, warn human rights experts.

World News

The dirty men of Europe: report identifies the worst EU countries for recycling

A report has identified the EU countries that won't meet the EU's 2020 target of 50% recycling rate.

World News

Euroviews. Tying ourselves to trees won’t solve climate change | View

The root cause of climate change is a broken economic model that undervalues non-renewable resources in favour of consumer products, writes Todd Lemons.

World News

Watch: ‘Headless chicken monster’ discovered by new photo technology

Australian researchers have filmed an unusual sea cucumber in the Southern Ocean using deep-sea cameras and hope it can help a conservation drive.

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Green News

Saving puffins in Iceland

Residents on a remote Icelandic island are working together to protect the puffin population.

World

Youths protecting the environment [Inspire Africa]

Who says teenagers do not care about the environment? In this edition of Inspire Afirca, Hannane Ferdjani talks an 18-year-old student who is actively showing his peers how to secure their tomorrow o

World News

Euroviews. Europe is protecting big business over victims of rights abuse | View

In a misguided effort to protect European companies’ competitiveness, our governments are ready to launch a race to the bottom, exploiting workers and destroying our planet.

My Europe Series

"Insiders" talks to all sides on the great German coal divide

Despite its Green credentials Germany is a heavy user of coal, especially lignite, which comes from Europe's biggest opencast strip-mine. Now it wants to expand, but first it has to expel protesters from what remains of Hambach forest, which is due to disappear.

My Europe Series

"Insiders" gets an expert's case against coal

Germany, a heavy user of dirty coal, has a high profile as an environmental leader, but that paradox has to change and the arguments for phasing out this fossil fuel are, says one expert, incontrovertible.

My Europe Series

German energy giant clears climate protesters from Hambach forest

Central Europe's last primordial forest in Germany is about to be obliterated to dig up dirty and inefficient lignite coal, despite Berlin's trumpeted green credentials. Insiders talks to all sides of the story, but RWE refuses to comment.

World News

Police remove treehouse protesters

Police in Germany have arrested around 30 activists who are attempting to stop coal mining on the site of a 12,000 year-old forest

World News

World Cleanup Day: Global event highlights pollution

People all over the world have taken part in a cleanup campaign to raise awareness of the negative impact posed by plastic waste and other types of litter.

Eco-Innovation

Green-powered boating at the 41st Cannes Yachting Festival

The yacht industry has presented its latest energy efficient and hybrid developments in Cannes at the Yachting Festival.

Germany

Riot police clash with environmental activists in Germany

Riot police clash with environmental activists in Germany

United Kingdom

Meet the man who built a floatable bike to clean up London's canals

This former consultant has created an eye-catching system to collect plastic from London's canals.

United Kingdom

World’s largest offshore wind farm opens in Irish Sea

The wind farm covers an area the size of about 20,000 football pitches.

France

Environment minister Nicolas Hulot quits French government

Hulot made the announcement live on the radio and said President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe were not aware of his decision to leave, saying "they perhaps would have tried to dissuade me."

Germany

Germany: Fish are dying in rivers from heatwave

In West Germany where temperatures have reached around 39 degree's celcius, there's hardly been any rain in the last few months, leaving the Rhine river in Cologne very low leaving fish to suffocate

Bulgaria

Bid to build at UNESCO-protected national park in Bulgaria 'illegal'

Environmentalists are celebrating after winning a court case over plans to expand a ski resort in one of Bulgaria’s national parks.

Living

Muy caliente: swimwear made in Spain

Get inspired by the Mediterranean vibes of these swimwear brands made in Spain.