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”…
Tag: environment
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…
Unseasonal forest fires ravage Europe
Hundreds of Norwegians and Swedes have had to leave their homes as forest fires rage in the south of Norway…
EU faces ‘trade war’ with Malaysia and Indonesia
The European Union faces a trade war with Malaysia over its “grossly unfair” policies aimed at palm-oil exports, according to…
Oil giants spend $1bn undermining Paris climate deal: watchdog
The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent US$1 billion on public relations or lobbying since the…
Malaysia threatens EU with sanctions over palm oil
Malaysia says it will plan retaliation against exports from the European Union if Brussels phases out palm oil biodiesel. “Malaysia…