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Brazil: dam collapse lawsuit seeks billions from mining companies

Brazil's Federal prosecutor have filed a 38 billion euro civil lawsuit against mining company Samarco and its owners, Vale and BHP Billiton, over a tailings dam disaster that causes massive pollution.

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Waste not, want not: boosting business with leftover food

Unleashing the power of the collaborative economy to fight food waste, while creating new business opportunities at the same time.

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Improving our understanding of our seas

We understand some parts of our own oceans less than we know outer space, but as they are so critical to our survival we need to know more, fast.

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Takeaway: how to take sea water samples

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Australian MP sets a river on fire

Australian Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham set fire to methane gas bubbling up through Queensland, Australia’s, Condamine River, in an attempt to show

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Stop polluting the oceans, says indigenous Australian art in Monaco

The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco is currently home to a major exhibition by artists from across Australia aimed at raising awareness about the

USA

UN: delegates set to sign historic climate change deal

Delegates from more than 165 states are at the United Nations in New York to sign an historic deal to slow down climate change. #EarthDay - the

Italy

Italy goes to the polls over oil and gas drilling

Prime MInister Matteo Renzi urges voters to stay at home

World News

Greenpeace stage roof protest in Warsaw

Logging in Bialowieska Forest to rise from 40,000 cubic metres in 10 years to 180,000

Italy

Italian referendum on drilling for oil could shape the country's energy policy for decades to come

A referendum to be held next Sunday in Italy could shape the country’s energy policy for decades to come. The ballot was triggered by a request from

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A greener road ahead?

Electric vehicles are a reality, and scientists are now looking ahead. They are exploring new frontiers to make them safer, more reliable, more

Cinema

'Tomorrow': a message of hope for a better, greener and more sustainable future

‘Tomorrow’ is an inspiring documentary by French filmmakers Melanie Laurent and Cyril Dion.

World News

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral bleaching on record

Scientists say parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are going through the worst coral bleaching on record. Experts have looked at more than 500

Business Series

US Senate says national rules needed for driverless vehicles

A US Senate panel has recommended federal laws covering the entire country be put in place for the oncoming driverless car revolution, and has warned

World News

'Unhealthy environments' kill 12.6 million people annually - WHO report

An estimated 12.6 million deaths each year are attributable to unhealthy environments, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

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Replacing oil in plastics production with organic waste

Oil is vital for far more than just energy; it is at the heart of the plastics family, but as waste it is highly polluting. Now Spanish scientists are creating a new generation of organic plastics tha

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Takeaway: eco-friendly plastics

Lebanon

Protesters kick up stink over Beirut's rubbish problems

Thousands of protesters have marched to the Lebanese government headquarters in Beirut amid a mounting row over the city’s rubbish problems. With

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From nuclear to neutral

Greenpeace in Hungary commemorated the anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident by lighting up lanterns powered by solar energy on the main

Business Planet

Boost your business and the environment with the European Ecolabel system

This week, Business Planet has been to the Czech capital, Prague, to find out more about the European Ecolabel system: how it works and how it businesses can benefit from it.