UK ill-prepared for climate change impacts; PM has her task cut out

A 2,000-page report predicts more floods, heat waves and water shortages in the UK due to global warming 

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 …

Unusual spring heatwave in Spain portends drought conditions in coming months

The country has been suffering from drought since summer last year

Solace in money plant

Forestry rescues recession-ridden investors in Europe and North America

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

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

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action

The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original

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

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