How will Brexit impact environmental policy in the UK?
If UK decides to leave the EU, experts fear it would lead to dilution of the EU’s stringent laws, making the environment vulnerable to …
Trust shaken and time lost at Bonn climate talks
Trust and inclusiveness were questioned even more when observers or civil society were barred from attending the negotiations
Aid package not enough, say Europe’s struggling farmers
The EU has announced a $560-million support package for farmers hit by Russia’s import ban
Russia's role raises hopes and fears
With Russia participating in the first unified space station project, international cooperation reaches new heights. But there are also doubts …
Should free trade include toxic dumping?
Many European nations have banned the free passage of toxic waste between borders, despite the common-market concept.
Green Rio-toric
Will the European Green parties' long agenda to change the world's environment have any takers?
Dyke disaster
After 50 complacent years, Europe's state-of-the-art dyke system is softened for the kill by raging riverine floods
In which the count fell
A recent study establishes that sperm count has fallen drastically since the 1930s in the US and Europe
More of everything?
Increasing acid rain. Higher temperatures. Water scarcity. Shrinking farmlands. Reducing biodiversity. This is what the years leading to AD 2050 …
Deadly generosity
Eighty-four nations may have 'agreed' to ban the export of poisonous wastes, but major players in the trade like Germany could ruin the …
Car-free smog-free!
As cars keep off the street following a French call for European car-free day, air quality in some cities shows improvement
Science cannot be a minion to wealth
A journalist without the pretensions of a scientist -- that's how JOHN MADDOX, editor of Nature for 15 years, would like to see himself. On his …
Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action
The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original
Europe has a wolf problem, and a late Norwegian philosopher had the solution
Norwegian environmental philosopher Arne Næss was clear: wolves have just as much a right to be here as we do
Wisent: Ukraine war could wreck efforts to save and rewild Europe’s great wild bovid, say new study authors
Parts of Poland, Ukraine, western Russia, parts of the Balkans and Germany most appropriate to rewild wisent
Unusual spring heatwave in Spain portends drought conditions in coming months
The country has been suffering from drought since summer last year
Sizzling Europe: Several countries face high temperatures, wildfires
Fifth-warmest year: 2021 was marked by floods, heatwaves, other climate anomalies for Europe
Europe experienced its warmest summer ever last year
Humans hunted Arctic foxes in wintry northern Europe during last Ice Age, fossils show
They did not migrate during winter but rather hunted Arctic foxes for survival
COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts
Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said
By demolishing dams, Europe, US letting rivers reclaim their space
Dam removal gained momentum after the EU adopted the Water Framework Directive in 2000
Tuscany gets the world’s first integrated geothermal and biomass plant
The company claims the plant has nearly zero impact on the environment
Solace in money plant
Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America
Taking science to the market
Fertiliser use is. increasing fit developing world