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United Kingdom

Meet the man who built a floatable bike to clean up London's canals

This former consultant has created an eye-catching system to collect plastic from London's canals.

13 September 2018

Lebanon

Could incinerators be the answer to Lebanon's critical waste problem?

Could incinerators be the answer to Lebanon's critical waste problem?

8 September 2018

World News

Daily air quality forecasts could save millions of lives, say scientis

Vincent-Henri Peuch, the head of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, said the idea was to make information on air pollution levels “as daily, as mundane as a weather forecast”.

8 September 2018

World News

Feeling good: positive stories from the week

Studies have shown that increasing positive emotions has a powerful effect on our general wellbeing. This is why we’d like to introduce you to our roundup of some of the brightest stories from this week.

7 September 2018

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Europe News

'Explosive' documents about Monsanto in Europe

"What we have is the tip of the iceberg," says US lawyer

6 September 2018

United Kingdom

World’s largest offshore wind farm opens in Irish Sea

The wind farm covers an area the size of about 20,000 football pitches.

6 September 2018

United Kingdom

Burberry stops setting fire to unsold clothes

“Modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible," the brand said in a statement.

6 September 2018

France

Hulot resignation forces Macron's third reshuffle

Hulot resignation forces Macron's third reshuffle

4 September 2018

World

British woman set to travel the length of Hudson River on paddle board

A British woman has decided to travel the length of the Hudson River in the US on a paddle board to raise awareness of plastic pollution. Lizzie Carr will paddle for more than a week consecutively to cover the 275 km (170 miles) long journey.

3 September 2018

Europe News

Car industry faces blame in EU's battle against air pollution

"I think that the car industry is among the big actors that are preventing us from solving the problem."

France

Environment minister Nicolas Hulot quits French government

Hulot made the announcement live on the radio and said President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Edouard Philippe were not aware of his decision to leave, saying "they perhaps would have tried to dissuade me."

World News

Europe briefing: seven stories to know about today

In a rush? Here are seven stories from around Europe that you need to know about today, Tuesday, August 28.

Brazil

First pictures show uncontacted tribe in Brazil

Drone captures first ever images of jungle group.

USA

Contact lenses end up in the ocean endangering sealife

We're being warned not to throw contact lenses down the loo or sink. A study by Arizona State University says the plastic ends up in the oceans adding to the plastic waste affecting the environment

Germany

Watch: The unstoppable advance of the Hambach mine in Germany

Deforestation of the Hambach forest has been happening for the past forty years to clear the area for lignite extraction. Now only 10% of the forest remains.

Germany

Solar panel car to go on sale in 2019

A German start-up is in the final stages of developing a charging system for an all-electric vehicle with solar panels to top up the battery as you drive.

World News

Eight ways the heatwave has affected Europe

From a melting mountain in Sweden, to a surge in beer sales in Germany, find out how the soaring temperatures are affecting Europe.

Germany

Germany: Fish are dying in rivers from heatwave

In West Germany where temperatures have reached around 39 degree's celcius, there's hardly been any rain in the last few months, leaving the Rhine river in Cologne very low leaving fish to suffocate

World News

Why we're all living on credit for the rest of the year

Today is the day humans 'have taken more from the planet than nature can put back in a year'.

World News

Earth Overshoot Day is the earliest in almost half a century

The day marks when humanity's annual demand on nature exceeds what our planet can renew in that year. This year, it falls on Aug. 1 - one day earlier than in 2017, which fell on Aug. 2, and the earliest since our planet went into "overshoot" in 1970, which fell on Dec. 29.