Russia Russian pianist performs on garbage Russian pianist performs on garbage to raise awareness. 30/09/2018
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
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
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
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
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
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
Good Morning Europe 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Greece "Waste to wear" project makes clothes out of discarded fishing nets The Healthy Seas project is trying to protect fish from getting trapped in plastic nets 07/06/2018
Belgium Leadership looks like... cleaning up the oceans by 2040 Boyan Slat went diving in Greece aged 16 and saw more plastic bags than fish. Instead of wringing his hands he went on to set up a not-for-profit that aims to rid the oceans of 90% of their plastic by 2040. And he is well on his way to achieving this. 07/06/2018
Japan French swimmer begins Pacific Ocean crossing to fight ‘plastic smog’ Benoit Lecomte aims to swim from Japan to California while researching the effects of plastic pollution clogging the Pacific. 05/06/2018
world news Greenpeace: Single-use plastic has to stop Greenpeace tells Euronews single-use plastic is to blame for ocean pollution. "We're going to reach a point soon when there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish." 28/05/2018
Europe News Brief from Brussels: Plastic is not fantastic In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: The EU draws the battle lines against plastics, announcing plans to ban single-use products, amid 28/05/2018
world news As it happened this morning: Monday 28 May On today's edition: what next as Italy navigates another political pitfall; the abortion debate in Ireland and the UK; and the diplomatic ups and downs between the US and North Korea. 28/05/2018
New Zealand Fighting the spread of microplastics Sailors competing in the Volvo round-the-world yacht race have been collecting water samples as part of a program to measure the spread of microplastics. 21/05/2018
no comment Plastic pollution 10,000 metres under the sea Scientists have compiled evidence of plastic debris on the sea bed in the deepest and most remote parts of the world’s oceans. 17/05/2018
