Contaminated water

Environmental organisations decry major European navigation project

The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal intends to connect the Black, Baltic and North seas for navigation

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

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

Wooing back the seals

EU, first climate neutral continent by 2050, needs 60% reduction in emissions by 2030

Negotiations need to identify concrete hooks to bring every country to the table and agree on the target collectively

Europe keeping dirty fuels alive; will spend $68 billion in hidden subsidies by 2040

Spain, Poland, Belgium, Ireland and the UK are making the biggest spending for subsidising fossil fuels

EU must close all 315 coal-fired power plants by 2030 to meet climate goals: study

While the UK has Europe’s third highest capacity for coal, Germany and Poland, together, produce 54 per cent of the EU’s total …

EU’s top 10 emitters are all coal plants — and 7 of them are repeat offenders

Poland, Germany dominate Europe’s emissions; long-term trend of coal power emissions shows a decline

Painful entry for Poland into the EU

ZOE YOUNG travels through Poland to find that its farmers dread integration with the EU