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A trickle of studies warning that the enormous variety of living things on Earth is diminishing has turned into a flood. The evidence for these losses within regions and globally is undeniable. But data on biodiversity, and what is causing its decline, is still patchy – restricted to some (...)
Trend of faster warming over last 30 years likely to cause exceptional heat, wildfires and floods, warn scientists
Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average in the last 30 years, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
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The Russian nuclear industry has once again managed to avoid inclusion in the latest round of EU sanctions – the eighth in a row to skirt this vital issue in an apparent acknowledgment that Europe’s dependence on Russian nuclear fuel cannot easily be reversed.
Since the start of the war in (...)
In the midst of panic in energy markets – caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and the West’s sanctions policy – all climate goals and demands for environmental, let alone transition, justice are thrown out the window, warns us anthropologist, activist, and author Florin Poenaru in (...)
Strong measures by Europe could quickly deprive Russia of oil and gas income worth billions, experts say
Flights should be banned in continental Europe and car use banned in city centres to save energy and prevent Vladimir Putin profiting from fossil fuel sales, campaigners have said.
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Widespread illegal logging is endangering Romania’s old-growth forests, which are disappearing at an alarming rate.
Romania’s old-growth forests are vast ancient woodlands that straddle the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. They have survived unchanged since the end of the ice age. But (...)
This letter has been sent to all EU leaders and heads of state on 16 July 2020.
You must stop pretending that we can solve the climate- and ecological crisis without treating it as a crisis
Here are our demands of this open letter:
These are some first steps, essential to our chance of (...)
A recent court verdict could affect Indigenous rights in Sweden and beyond.
In late January, the Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a significant legal battle against the Swedish state. The Swedish Supreme Court legally recognised the Indigenous community’s ancestral (...)
Experts say that just one-fourth of trash from building sites is ending up in the hands of authorized management companies, even though much of it can be reused “infinitely”
For every citizen in the European Union, around a ton of construction waste is generated every year. But in Spain the (...)
The felling of ancient woodland to make way for a giant coal mine brings together two linked battles for the activist
Greta Thunberg started her long journey to climate summits in the Americas by joining a treetop protest in Germany’s Hambach forest, where environmentalists have been fighting (...)
Building a motorway through the Kresna gorges will be a disaster for local people and for biodiversity.
From Valentin Stoichkov’s terrace, the views over the Pirin Mountains are breathtaking. The deputy mayor of the small town of Kresna, in south-western Bulgaria, has built an extension to his (...)
Disputes over Spain’s national borders have dominated the campaign for today’s election. But Podemos’s radical environmental program against the billionaire class can save the entire planet.
In the final leaders’ debate before today’s knife-edge election, Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias was widely (...)
Court victory halts utility firm RWE’s plan to raze Hambach woodland and expand an opencast mine
Thousands of anti-coal demonstrators descended on Germany’s Hambach forest on Saturday to celebrate an unexpected court victory that suspended an energy company’s planned razing of the woodland to (...)
Occupiers protesting against coal mine expansion in Hambach forest call for mass mobilisation
Hundreds of police officers have descended on a patch of forest in western Germany occupied by activists living in treehouses, in a major escalation of a long-running environmental battle.
Dozens of (...)
Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent the area being destroyed and mined for coal. State violence, police brutality and coorporate power are combining to try and oust them for good.
In one of the largest policing operations in the history of the German state, police (...)
To encourage the financing of activities that mitigate climate change, the EU has launched a policy to involve the private financial sector. The EU wants private capital to contribute to the commitments made at the Paris Climate Summit and to a certain extent, the UN Sustainability Goals. SOMO (...)
This article was published in cooperation with the Serbo-Croatian portal Bilten.
The campaign to save the Bulgarian national Park Pirin has over the past several months become the major source of protest in the country and even brought the attention of international media and NGOs. Instead of (...)
The campaign to save the Bulgarian national Park Pirin has over the past several months become the major source of protest in the country and even brought the attention of international media and NGOs. Instead of embarrassingly shelving their plans for building on the mountain, the Bulgarian (...)
Invenergy files international arbitration suit against Poland over wind projects
Invenergy Renewables, and other companies forming the Invenergy group, have submitted a Notice of Arbitration against the Republic of Poland citing violations of Invenergy’s rights as a foreign investor and clear (...)
Europe doesn’t know what to do with its trash. The poorest countries of the EU face the greatest challenges. EU directives and environmental incentives and penalities benefit mostly west European interests.
The policy of the European Union (EU) in the field of environmental protection and (...)
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