Now playing Next no comment MEPs take part in plastic cleanup to mark World Cleanup Day A group of MEPs joined a World Cleanup Day event on Tuesday, picking up waste outside the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg 24/10/2018
Now playing Next World EU vote on more stringent carbon targets The European Parliament will vote today on imposing stricter carbon limits in the car industry. It's a clash of concerns between climate goals and industry competition – with warnings that some of the 13 million EU jobs, reliant on the auto-industry, could be put at risk. 03/10/2018
Now playing Next Russia Russian pianist performs on garbage Russian pianist performs on garbage to raise awareness. 30/09/2018
Now playing Next Unreported Europe "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. 28/09/2018
Now playing Next Unreported Europe "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. 28/09/2018
Now playing Next Unreported Europe 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. 28/09/2018
Now playing Next world news Satellite captures space junk in world's first Around 7,600 tonnes of debris float around Earth posing a real threat to operational satellites. 21/09/2018
Now playing Next no comment Watch: Millions join global cleanup campaign Millions of people marked World Cleanup Day on Saturday, joining what was set to be the biggest-ever single day of volunteer-based waste collection efforts. 15/09/2018
Now playing Next world news World Cleanup Day 2018: The largest waste collection day in history s 14/09/2018
Now playing Next world news Daily air quality forecasts could save millions of lives, say scientis Vincent-Henri Peuch, the head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said the idea was to make information on air pollution levels “as daily, as mundane as a weather forecast”. 08/09/2018
Now playing Next World British woman set to travel the length of Hudson River on paddle board A British woman has decided to travel the length of the Hudson River in the US on a paddle board to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Lizzie Carr will paddle for more than a week consecutively to cover the 275 km (170 miles) long journey. 03/09/2018
Now playing Next China Air pollution can damage our intelligence, study finds Exposure to air pollution may impede cognitive ability as people become older, with less-educated men the worst affected, a new study has found. 28/08/2018
Now playing Next Hungary Zoo dumps plastic waste in aquarium to highlight ocean pollution problem Yoghurt pots, plastic bags, fishing nets and flippers are just some of the pieces of rubbish staff at Pecs Zoo have dumped in their tank, which is normally home to thriving schools of fish and other marine animals. 17/08/2018
Now playing Next Italy Plastic bottle raft helps highlight marine pollution problem in Italy This is the Italian who made a raft out of plastic bottles to highlight the problem of marine waste in our seas. 17/08/2018
Now playing Next France French ozone levels set to spike in the heat French authorities are taking measures to reduce pollution levels amid concerns that ozone levels will spike, adding chronic heart and lung disease to the list of health risks brought about by the heatwave. 06/08/2018
Now playing Next Chile Easter Island restricts tourists visits The island's mayor, Petro Edmunds has reduced the number of days from 90 to 30 because, he says, foreigners are "damaging the local idiosyncrasy" 31/07/2018
Now playing Next world news Earth Overshoot Day is the earliest in almost half a century The day marks when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what our planet can renew in that year. This year, it falls on Aug. 1 - one day earlier than in 2017, which fell on Aug. 2, and the earliest since our planet went into "overshoot" in 1970, which fell on Dec. 29. 31/07/2018
Now playing Next Belgium Five tonnes of plastic waste from the sea is transformed into a whale Five tons of plastic waste has been pulled from seawater and transformed into the Bruges Whale, a gigantic sculpture that highlights the staggering amount of waste floating in our oceans. 05/07/2018
Now playing Next no comment From bass to soprano, artist leads whale choir for UK exhibition An exhibition about whales has been providing visitors in northern England with a somewhat different insight into the huge mammals with a choir of volunteers mimicking the sounds the species makes. 05/07/2018
Now playing Next no comment Man back-flips to safety from a highway sign, gets arrested A man in California standing up on a freeway sign this morning back-flipped his way to safety — and then he was arrested. 28/06/2018
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