UK asked to abandon EU palm-oil policies
Malaysia has promised the UK a post-Brexit trade deal if it abandons the European Union’s opposition to environmentally ruinous palm…
Tag: environment
Italians take action to tackle plastic pollution
Italy’s fishermen say they catch as much plastic as fish in their nets and until recently it was illegal for…
EU risks Indonesian anger with trade tariffs
The European Union is imposing duties on imports of subsidised Indonesian biodiesel to level the playing field with EU-based suppliers. …
Brazil’s president brushes off German funding threat
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has brushed off Germany’s funding of sustainability projects in Brazil’s forests. “They can use this money…
Poland protests about plastic waste imports
Poland is increasingly fed up with illegally imported plastic waste, much of it from the UK and a “trash mafia”…
French solar road branded a failure
The world’s first solar road in Normandy, which opened in 2016, has failed to meet expectations, raising questions about the…
Thunberg tells French MPs to listen to scientists
Swedish child campaigner Greta Thunberg (pictured) has dismissed mockery from French MPs who joked at her speech to parliament that…
Germany and France report forestry collapse
Germany’s forests purportedly face ecological collapse with more than 1 million established trees dying in the last year from drought,…
Armenian lake faces destruction: ecologists
Armenian environmentalists say the country’s largest lake is facing extinction from algae and falling water levels. The authorities must take…
Study calls for tree planting to tackle climate crisis
Planting trees is the cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis, according to scientists, who wanted to avoid using farmland…
Turkey moves to prosecute Bloomberg reporters
A Turkish court has accepted a request to prosecute two Bloomberg reporters and 36 others after Turkey’s banking monitoring agency,…
Green MEPs target policy shake-up
Green parties in numerous European Union countries have made dramatic electoral gains, holding off challenges from the populist far-right. Their…
Northern Ireland returns two pro-EU MEPs
In Northern Ireland, the pro-EU Alliance Party enjoyed its best ever result with leader Naomi Long’s being named one of…
AfD targets Greta Thunberg in climate denial campaign
The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) has come out in favour of climate change denial, ridiculing the teenage Swedish activist Greta…
EU citizens cause disproportionate environmental damage
EU citizens are using more than their fair share of the planet’s resources, emitting too much carbon, eating too much,…
Russia’s ‘nuclear Titanic’ ready to produce power
The world’s first floating nuclear power station, known as a “floating Chernobyl” or “nuclear Titanic” by its opponents, is ready…